[Jozeca]

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I am currently reading the book The Calvary Road by Roy Hession. Many of my thougts and ideas have come from this book, and some of them are my own from experiances I've had recenly. It is one of my favorite books and would reccomend it if you want to read something that isn't always the most pleasant, but very good.
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Colossians 3:15 - "Let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts..."

Peace. I had never really given a lot of thought to the subject. Until, that is, I felt like I had lost it. I'm a pretty secure person. I don't worry a lot, I don't really care what people think of me, and I usually trust God to do what He will. But that doesn't mean I can't me shaken. There have been times (less than a week ago, in fact) when I started to feel as if I had nothing holding me up. I knew He was always there, but there were things happening in my life and people talking to me and phone calls and ministry work and music and jobs and the school had to start again then I was asked to do a bunch of other stuf and... my little life wasn't so peaceful anymore. In fact, I wasn't feeling much peace on earth.

His peace was not ruling. Definately not. Instead, peace, the "referee" of my heart, was blowing its whistle, calling a time out. Serious time out.

There were things in my life that I had to get straightened out. Until I did that, I would have no peace. Lack of peace comes from one thing: my sin. It does not come from someone else! I will not be in wrong standing with God because my neighbor said something that was wrong.

These last 4 days, there have been a lot of things God has done in me. It seemed that there was a pattern to this change. It was something like this:
1. Ask God for His light to shine in your heart and reveal things to you
2. Repent. Every time I thought of this I was reminded of the verse in 1 John (" If you confess your sins He is faithful and just to forgive you and cleanse you from all unrighteousness...")
3. Ask God to break you in this area and make you sensitive to it.
4. Ask Him to fill you with His spirit to overflowing.

Tonight, I took care of the most recent thing that He reminded me of. This one had to do with other people and I had to apologize- a difficult and humbling experiance. But He is faithful.

He truely does bring perfect peace.