"It was the biggest crisis of my life and I had peace. It was incredible." That was the statement I heard from a young man this week who was recounting how God worked in his situation. His premature, new born baby was in a neonatal ICU - struggling. The young man's father had come to visit and he had a major health crisis and ended up in the ICU in another part of the hospital. Crises do not usually crash into our lives alone.
So how do we get peace when your child and your father are both in ICU? The interesting thing about where God teaches us peace (as well as patience, kindness, love and pretty much every fruit of the Spirit) is that it comes in the places where it is hardest for them to naturally exist. In the places where it seems life takes peace, God teaches peace. He takes us beyond the natural to grow the supernatural.
Think about that in your life. Have you ever learned patience without actually being in a place where you have to wait? I haven't. Peace is the same way; God teaches it to us in the crisis and the chaos. If we learn it there, peace will be there when the crisis and chaos go away. And the peace will be stronger.
This Sunday we are going to be learning about God's peace. I have a sneaking suspicion that many of us are in a place to learn it - right now.
for the journey...
Tim
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