Years ago, fishing in the Gulf with 35 knot winds, I didn't have a lot of peace. My only peace came in the form of pie-ces of my breakfast that had become shark chum! Back on land after a long recovery as I pondered how on earth Jesus could sleep in the middle of a storm, I was led to Isaiah 26.
2 Open the gates, that the righteous nation which keeps the truth may enter in.
3 You will keep him in perfect peace,
whose mind is stayed on you,
because he trusts in You.
4 Trust in the LORD forever,
for in the LORD, is everlasting strength.
One of God's names is the Prince of Peace. The very peace that was already inside of Jesus was manifested in the natural as He spoke to the storm from the deck of that wave-tossed ship.
Keeping the truth, setting your mind on heavenly things, trusting Him, and notice it also says..."A righteous nation." If we follow those things, we can't have our peace taken away!
Even when we walk into a place where there is storm, chaos, or unrest, the peace that is already inside us can and will affect the people around us.
It's His presence, it's the knowing that He is near, it is Him dwelling within you, it's a mind that is set on heavenly things that brings real, true, lasting peace.
Blessings,
-Scott McDonald
