“Grace and peace be multiplied unto you through the knowledge of God, and of Jesus our Lord…”  (2 Peter 1)

“Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on [T]hee : because he trusteth in [T]hee. Trust ye in the LORD forever : for in the LORD JEHOVAH is everlasting strength…”  (Isaiah 26)

 

Reader,
When you sing, “Peace like a river attendeth my soul” is your voice ringing true?  Does peace like a river attendeth your soul?  Do you know peace? Do you experience the calmness of your faith?  Or  Do you still find yourself fretting and worring about things you cannot do anything about?  Do you worry or are you full of care concerning your family, your career, the future?  Do you look at the world and see violence and antipathy?  Does this discourage you?  Does this cause you to be shaken?

The world’s answer to this is medication. Sometimes medication is needed and is God’s will.  When Christ used mud to give sight to the blind, did He not give His blessing on the use of outside agents to heal?  When God called Dr. Luke to be a companion and biographer to Paul, Did God not put His blessing upon the medical field? Methinks the answer is obvious.  We do not count ourself among the super saints who resist any medicines. Having said this……………………………………………..

Having said that, if medication is not necessary how is one to obtain peace?  How might one obtain multiplied grace and peace?  Peter tells us grace and peace can be multiplied “through the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord…”  What meaneth Peter?  How can one obtain peace through the knowledge of God and Jesus our Lord?  Let us investigate.

First and foremost, one must know God personally through the Lord Jesus. One must experience God through the Holy Spirit of God in Christ. If one does not have this relationship there is no hope of peace being granted from the Godhead, none at all.

How does one come to know the Godhead personally?  It is rather simple, Repent of your SIN and sins, SIN being the root of sins and sins being the symptom of SIN. Once one repents of who and what they are, one can then believe unto eternal life.  These are God’s terms: Repent and believe.  What does it mean to repent and believe?  To repent means to change one’s mind which results in a change of actions. Repentance is the turning from SIN/sins  to  God and holiness.  What does belief entail? belief like repentance brings about works.  To believe in Christ is to trust and obey, just like the song sings. To believe in Christ is to believe “in Christ.” “in Christ” is a state or a position or a placement. Therefore we must believe while being in Christ.  To believe also entails a submission to Christ’s will.  To believe is to Love the Lord Jesus.  Let me explain from Scripture……………………….

Scripture tells us that if a man does not love Christ, that man is damned (1 Corinthians 16:22).

Scripture also tells us that “[Christ] being made perfect. [H]e became the [A]uthor of eternal salvation unto all them that obey [H]im…”  (Hebrews 5:9)  Oh! and by the way, when in Isaiah nine (9) Christ is called the Everlasting Father, this is what is meant, the     “[A]uthor of eternal salvation.”  Do not confuse Christ with the Father in Isaiah 9.

What do we see from the above Scripture passages?  To believe, to be saved one loves and obeys Christ.  It’s that simple, Love Christ and because of this love, obedience is not in question. This is the beginning of peace.  Salvation is peace with God,  “And having made peace through the [B]lood of [H]is [C]ross…”

The above is again a state or a placing of the saint into peace; there remains no divide between God and that saint.

What about the sense or the feeling of peace?  Is there a peace that passeth all understanding?  There is.

How does one obtain this elusive peace?

This peace is found in and through the knowledge of God and Jesus our Lord.

Reader, The more one knows God the more peace one will have. Scroll up and read Isaiah again.  Perfect peace is promised to the person who will stay the mind upon the Godhead, Jehovah.  In the stead of groupthink or selfishthink, one might Godthink. If you Godthink you will know peace.  If you Godthink all day, you will find peace …”Peace like a river attending to your soul.”

If we are cognitive in Christ, if we reckon ourselves in Christ, if we are yielded in Christ there is no place for drama, there is no place for worry, there be no place for fretting.  Nope…Nada…Zilch… Zero….there is no place for worry.  Grace and peace nullifies worry.  Grace and peace necessitates the destruction, the Dismissal, the dispatching of worry.

The more intimate the Christ-ian is with the Godhead- the more peace will the Christ-ian experience.