PEACE, PEACE

 

EVENING DEVOTION by James Smith

APRIL 5

 

Isaiah 57:19

I create the fruit of the lips; Peace, peace to him that is far off,

and to him that is near, saith the LORD; and I will heal him.

 
Such are the soft, soothing sounds which the gospel whispers in the believer’s ear. In all times of tribulation, in all times of temptation, in all times of bodily disease and suffering, it softly cries “Peace PEACE.”
 
Peace, for Jesus died to put away your sins.
 
Peace, for Jesus lives to intercede for you in heaven.
 
Peace, for Jesus reigns, and your concerns are in his hands.
 
Peace, for Jesus loves and his love is immutably fixed on you.
 
Peace, for God is love.
 
Peace, for you are reconciled to him by the death of his Son.
 
Let not your heart be troubled. Every thought of God respecting you, is peaceful. Every purpose of God toward you which providence has to work out, is peaceful.
 
Heaven is at peace with you.
 
You are also at peace with heaven.
 
Your peace was made, when Jesus died in your stead; when he put away your sin by the sacrifice of himself.
 
Look to him as your PEACEMAKER.
 
Live in the atmosphere of Gethsemane and Golgotha.
 
Often meditate upon that precious verse, 

         “Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace whose mind

           is stayed on thee; because he trusteth in thee.”
 
Let your mind rest in the Lord.
 

Jesus, my feeble faith increase,

And sweetly multiply my peace,

And when I always trust thy power,

My sin shall trouble me no more.

 
James Smith