Got Peace? 3

Hello Everyone,

We bring peace into play when we Practice Peace.

Paul told the church at Colossi in Colossians 3:15:

        “Let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, since as members of one body you were called to peace, and be thankful.”

A psychologist by the name of William James had a theory that every sensation, every contact with the outside world leaves a permanent trace on our ten billion brain cells. These traces are permanent and constantly accumulating and the sum total of them is our personality and our character.

        He went on to say that everything we do makes it easier to do the same thing again.  This is because the electrical currents record all that is happening and creates pathways among the brain cells.  The more frequent an action is performed the deeper and broader these pathways become.

        William James said this: “The man who has daily trained himself to habits of concentrated attention, energetic preference and self denial will stand like a tower when everything around him rocks and when his softer fellow mortals are winnowed like chaff in the blast. Sow an action and you reap a habit; sow a habit and you reap a character; sow a character and you reap a destiny.

We are spinning our own fates, whether good or evil. A drunk becomes a drunk by many separate drinks, so we become saints and authorities and experts by many separate acts and hours of work.”

In other words peace can come into our lives by letting it rule in our lives and consciously acting on what the peace we now have.

This continual peace of Christ should influence our entire existence!!!

·         We remain calm in tension.

·         Untroubled in trial.

·         And determined in disaster.

This is the peace of mind and heart, and character that Jesus exhibited during the hours of torture at Calvary.

   The world may be at war all around us.  But deep down inside, His presence, His Life, His Spirit, produces peace and that peace that comes makes me a peacemaker.

Isaiah 26:3 Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee: because he trusteth in thee.

Greater things are still to come!