God’s ways are higher than ours. So, his peace passes all of our understanding and can make us stand in the midst of a crumbling and suffering world

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At my website, I try to be a good friend, but I’m not the greatest. Jesus said that only God is good. Still, I’m going through a difficult time, right now, and I think many of you are, too. And maybe you think you can’t rely on anyone to help you, including God. And you might get angry at everyone, even God. I want to try to help. I’ve found that God has eternity in mind, all the time, and that means that it gets really messy here, on earth, when he is making us really close to him. We’re losing all of the idols that we love to go to, instead of him. It is ugly when God is making us only go to him.

God grows us up, he says, in the Bible: “Now no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous: nevertheless afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby.” (Hebrews 12:11) But what do we do before we receive that peace? I think that, sometimes, we have to be patient, and wait, and that’s difficult to do. It takes a lot of character that, sometimes, we don’t have. What should we do, then?

What do we do when evil surrounds us? “And when the thousand years are expired, Satan shall be loosed out of his prison, and shall go out to deceive the nations which are in the four quarters of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them together to battle: the number of whom is as the sand of the sea. And they went up on the breadth of the earth, and compassed the camp of the saints about, and the beloved city: and fire came down from God out of heaven, and devoured them.” (Revelation 20:7-9) But what do we do before God’s consuming fire nature does what’s natural?

I thought about the waiting, and realized we need to have assurance and trust that God will help. It says in Psalm 23:4: “Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me.” And, in Proverbs 3:5-6: “Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge him and he shall direct thy paths.”

But what if we still have a difficult time, we can’t be calm, and we have no peace? Philippians 4:6-7 says: “In every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God. And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.”

Jesus is the Prince of Peace who gets us through each and every circumstance.