DAILY DEVOTIONAL FOR TODAY, FEBRUARY 21, 2013
FROM A PLACE OF PEACE: SHALOM
Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.John 14:27
Jesus Christ made it possible for all Christians to live a life of peace. He left Peace in the world when he went back to be with His Father. Jesus explained in John 14:28 that he had to leave this earth to return to the Father: "Ye have heard how I said unto you, I go away, and come again unto you. If ye loved me, ye would rejoice, because I said, I go unto the Father: for my Father is greater than I."
The New Covenant is established on the principle Peace. We now can live in the power of an eternal rest--in Christ Jesus. In this place of eternal rest, we find abundant life and PEACE. Because of this blessed state, we have been given the commandment: "Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid."
Today, "There remaineth therefore a rest to the people of God. For he that is entered into his rest, he also hath ceased from his own works, as God did from his" (Hebrews 4:9-4:10). SHALOM!
