March 10

Perhaps the most elusive commodity to the Christian is peace. It is promised as part of the package that Jesus extends to those who trust in Him, yet the evidence of it is often missing from our lives as believers. We echo the cry of the Psalmist in Psalm 6:3, “My soul is exceedingly disturbed. How long, O Lord, until You restore peace to me?”

We are distressed by many things. They may or may not be of the magnitude of the warfare that plagued David, or the stench of sin upon this leader who was a man after God’s own heart, or the resultant turmoil within his family because of that sin, but we know the depth of distress from which his soul cried for the peace that only the Lord can provide.

Like David, we must recognize that the only Source of hope we have in the throes of the dilemmas that surround us on every hand, that seek to destroy our very soul is the Christ who came to set us free from every fetter that would attempt to bind us, from every sin that would endeavor to destroy our hope in life and rob us of our eternal victory.

Like David, we must look to the Holy one of Israel and proclaim as we are admonished to do in Deuteronomy 31:8, “It is the Lord who goes before me; He is with me; He will neither fail me nor forsake me. I need not fear nor be dismayed…” Whether our circumstances are self-made as were many of David’s or beyond our control, when we look to the Lord, we are assured of peace.