GOD’S WORD FOR JANUARY 21

We are reading from a daily devotional  called “Running To Win” written by Erwin Lutzer  and the late, great D.L. Moody.   Erwin Lutzer is a light in our day as D.L. Moody was in his.

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YOUR ANXIETY FOR HIS PEACE

Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you.  Not as the world gives do I give to you.  Let not your hearts be troubled, neither let them be afraid.  John 14:27

D.L. MOODY

Did you ever think that when Christ was dying on the cross He made a will?  Perhaps you have thought no one ever remembered you in a will.    If you are in the kingdom, Christ remembered you in His.  He willed His body to Joseph of Arimathea.   He willed His mother to John, the son of Zebedee, and He willed His spirit back to His Father.  But to His disciples He said, “My peace, I leave that with you;  that is my legacy.  My joy, I give that to you.”

“My joy,”   Think of it!   “My peace” –not OUR PEACE, but   “HIS” peace!

They say a man can’t make a will now that lawyers can’t break …I will challenge them to break Christ’s will;  let them try it.  No judge or jury can set that aside.  Christ rose to execute His own will.  If He had left us a lot of gold, thieves would have stolen it in the first century; but He left His peace and His joy for every true believer, and no power on Earth can take it from him who trusts.

ERWIN LUTZER

The peace of God is better than gold, yet we’ve all found it difficult to accept this gift when anxiety overtakes us.  Anxiety is like a warning light on a car, highlighting that which we have not put under God’s complete authority. Or perhaps we haven’t yet fully cast our fears upon Hin, surrendering every corner of our lives to Him.  Christ offers His peace to us PERSONALLY.  There is a real sense of well-being and stability from knowing our life is in God’s hands.

Jesus gave us the gift of His peace at a time when, in His humanity, He Himself needed peace, for this was the last night before He would be cruelly hung on a cross.  Yet even then, He was still the Prince of Peace.

Choose peace in your life.  Christ’s promise of peace, belongs to you.

PRAYER

Father, I transfer my anxieties to your shoulders.

Today, I choose to walk in the peace Jesus promised.

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Ps 91:1-2

He who dwells in the secret place of the Most High

Shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty.

I will say of the Lord, “He is my refuge and my fortress;

My God, in Him I will trust.”

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