by Dona Hake
Psalm 119:165 (HCSB)
“Abundant peace belongs to those
who love Your instruction;
nothing makes them stumble.”
God’s peace amazes me! I love those times in which His peace seems to be so great within me, and it seems that nothing around me can rob me of it. Then there are those times in which I know that I am not partaking of His peace the way He wills that I would. You see God wants us to understand and walk in the truth that His peace belongs to us. Now we are looking at the fact that His peace belongs to us but He wants us to know that if we love His Word that His peace is abundant toward us. What is so awesome as well is that there is protection for our soul in His wonderful peace.
God’s peace within us promises to guard us from stumbling. One translation says that “nothing will offend them.” Did you ever notice how if you are agitated, feeling a bit empty and someone does something offensive it is almost immediately makes you snap back and get offended. How precious are those times where you feel saturated in His peace because you are saturated in His Word, and you feel unmovable. It is when we are in that place of His refuge that we will simply be unmovable. Paul spoke of the peace that passes all understanding. That peace will keep and guard our mind and that peace will also surpass our understanding. It is His peace that will make us scratch our heads in wonder how we got through something, and did not move off of the Rock that keeps us standing.
Lord, we ask you this day that we stay aware of Your presence, and that we stay saturated in Your abundant peace. It is then that we can enjoy the blessing that there is nothing that can trip us up and make us stumble. We thank you for this wonderful blessing that only comes from You!