Bible League: Living His Word "I leave you peace. It is my own peace I give you. I give you peace in a different way than the world does. So don't be troubled. Don't be afraid."— John 14:27 ERV Do you feel like you have enough peace? When you try to fall asleep at night, do you have peace or does your mind race like a Formula 1 car in a Grand Prix? Are your days filled with worry, fear, and anxiety? What would you do to have a little more peace in your life? Some people are looking for peace in all the wrong places. They look for peace in a spouse or in a relationship. They try to find peace in a bottle or a pill. People search for peace by reading self-help books or listening to motivational speakers on a podcast. The world offers myriad ways to find peace, yet here we are—anxious, worried, fearful, and stressed out to the max. Where, or to whom, can we turn for peace. God's Son, Jesus, offers true and lasting peace. On the night before He was crucified, Jesus met with His friends, and He told them that He was going to leave them. Their hearts must have been troubled, and fear gripped them. Jesus told them to not be afraid because He was going to leave them His peace. His peace, He said, is different than the peace the world offers. What is the difference between the peace the world offers and the peace that Jesus gives? The peace of Jesus Christ is an everlasting peace. It is more than just the absence of chaos and confusion. The peace of God has the power to overcome worry, fear, and anxiety. The book of Isaiah in the Old Testament says that God will keep in perfect peace those whose minds are fixed on Him because they trust Him (Isaiah 26:3). If you want more peace in your life, don't turn to a substance. Turn to the Savior! If you want more peace in your life, don't put your trust in a guru. Put your trust in God! If you want more peace in your life, don't look to a human relationship. Open up your heart to a relationship with Jesus by God's grace through faith! God can give you the peace for which you're longing. He can ease the burdens of fear, worry, anxiety, and stress. Trust in God and in His Son, Jesus Christ. Let His Holy Spirit fill your heart with true and lasting peace. When God takes away your stress and when He eases your worries, remember to praise Him and thank Him for what He's done. Jesus truly is the Prince of Peace and He's waiting for you to receive the peace He offers you. Sleep well, friends! By Shawn Cornett, Bible League International staff, Illinois U.S. Bible in a Year Old Testament ReadingRuth Ruth 1 -- Naomi and Ruth NIV NLT ESV NAS GWT KJV ASV ERV DRB Ruth 2 -- Ruth Gleans in the Field of Boaz NIV NLT ESV NAS GWT KJV ASV ERV DRB Ruth 3 -- Naomi's Instruction to Ruth; Boaz Accepts Ruth NIV NLT ESV NAS GWT KJV ASV ERV DRB Ruth 4 -- Boaz Marries Ruth and Begins the Line of David NIV NLT ESV NAS GWT KJV ASV ERV DRB New Testament Reading Luke 11:29-54 Luke 11 -- Instruction about Prayer; Casting out Demons; the Sign of Jonah; Woes upon Pharisees NIV NLT ESV NAS GWT KJV ASV ERV DRB Reading Plan Courtesy of Christian Classics Etherial Library. Tyndale Life Application Daily Devotion The wise don't make a show of their knowledge,but fools broadcast their foolishness. Insight Wise people have a quiet confidence. Unstable people (fools) feel the need to prove themselves, but wise people don't have to prove anything. They know they are capable, so they can get on with their work. Challenge Beware of showing off. If you are modest, people may not notice you at first, but they will respect you later. Morning and Evening by Spurgeon Psalm 23:4 I will fear no evil: for thou art with me.Behold, how independent of outward circumstances the Holy Ghost can make the Christian! What a bright light may shine within us when it is all dark without! How firm, how happy, how calm, how peaceful we may be, when the world shakes to and fro, and the pillars of the earth are removed! Even death itself, with all its terrible influences, has no power to suspend the music of a Christian's heart, but rather makes that music become more sweet, more clear, more heavenly, till the last kind act which death can do is to let the earthly strain melt into the heavenly chorus, the temporal joy into the eternal bliss! Let us have confidence, then, in the blessed Spirit's power to comfort us. Dear reader, are you looking forward to poverty? Fear not; the divine Spirit can give you, in your want, a greater plenty than the rich have in their abundance. You know not what joys may be stored up for you in the cottage around which grace will plant the roses of content. Are you conscious of a growing failure of your bodily powers? Do you expect to suffer long nights of languishing and days of pain? O be not sad! That bed may become a throne to you. You little know how every pang that shoots through your body may be a refining fire to consume your dross--a beam of glory to light up the secret parts of your soul. Are the eyes growing dim? Jesus will be your light. Do the ears fail you? Jesus' name will be your soul's best music, and his person your dear delight. Socrates used to say, "Philosophers can be happy without music;" and Christians can be happier than philosophers when all outward causes of rejoicing are withdrawn. In thee, my God, my heart shall triumph, come what may of ills without! By thy power, O blessed Spirit, my heart shall be exceeding glad, though all things should fail me here below. Daily Light on the Daily Path Revelation 22:4 they will see His face, and His name will be on their foreheads.Exodus 33:18,20 Then Moses said, "I pray You, show me Your glory!" • But He said, "You cannot see My face, for no man can see Me and live!" John 1:18 No one has seen God at any time; the only begotten God who is in the bosom of the Father, He has explained Him. Revelation 1:7 BEHOLD, HE IS COMING WITH THE CLOUDS, and every eye will see Him, even those who pierced Him; and all the tribes of the earth will mourn over Him. So it is to be. Amen. Numbers 24:17 "I see him, but not now; I behold him, but not near; A star shall come forth from Jacob, A scepter shall rise from Israel, And shall crush through the forehead of Moab, And tear down all the sons of Sheth. Job 19:25,26 "As for me, I know that my Redeemer lives, And at the last He will take His stand on the earth. • "Even after my skin is destroyed, Yet from my flesh I shall see God; Psalm 17:15 As for me, I shall behold Your face in righteousness; I will be satisfied with Your likeness when I awake. 1 John 3:2 Beloved, now we are children of God, and it has not appeared as yet what we will be. We know that when He appears, we will be like Him, because we will see Him just as He is. 1 Thessalonians 4:16,17 For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first. • Then we who are alive and remain will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and so we shall always be with the Lord. New American Standard Bible Copyright © 1960, 1962, 1963, 1968, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1977, 1995 by The Lockman Foundation, La Habra, Calif. All rights reserved. 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