Peace

A couple weeks ago, my friends and I went up to “Prayer Mountain” at a camp down south, with an acoustic guitar and Bible. I didn’t know what to expect, I just knew that a lot of people loved going up there and hanging out with God. Well once you get up there you can completely understand. It’s not like the view is more breathtaking than any other view from a mountainside. It’s not that green, it isn’t all beauty. But what it I think about what was up there was just the peace of God was soooooo evident. It was like creation was screaming with peace. I could go on about the morning but I wanna sit on the subject of peace.

The last few months have been somewhat stressful with school and all these other things coming at me. Everytime I tried to worry about the area of school, God would ask me "Do you trust Me?" And instantly I was like, "Whoops. Here I go again, trusting in me alone." And everytime I made the conscious choice to stop worrying about it and give it to God, and He would instantly fill me with His peace.

After this experience on Prayer Mountain with just being flooded with absolute peace, I have been thinking a lot on peace, how to have peace in a crazy life. I wanna share some scripture with you.

Philippians 4:6-7 (NKJV), "Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God; and the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus."

In the Message it reads, "Don't fret or worry. Instead of worrying, pray. Let petitions and praises shape your worries into prayers, letting God know your concerns. Before you know it, a sense of God's wholeness, everything coming together for good, will come and settle you down. It's wonderful what happens when Christ displaces worry at the centre of your life."

When I was up on Prayer Mountain, nothing could take that peace away. A peace that passes beyond all understanding, something we don't even understand, something we can't fathom, just settling down in our lives as we wait upon God knowing that in His time it will work out, knowing that in the end it will work out for good, and we really have nothing to worry about.

Lately the more I've been giving God my worries, the more I've felt His peace flood my life. And that peace brings this contentment. Really not worrying about anything just gives you that freedom to be peaceful and content. I haven't really felt a lot of peace in my life before. I'm so used to worrying about everything and anything, but what's there to worry about when the God of the universe has our world in His hands?!?!?!