- What are you allowing to control your thoughts and emotions?
- It's your choice.
- You can allow fear, strife, anger, chaos, confusion and division.
- Or you can choose to let His Peace to control you.
- That's right, you choose.
- Whatever things you allow in your thoughts and dwell on will drive your emotions.
- But notice in this verse it says, "the inner calm of one who walks daily with Him"
- Peace is a person.
- Jesus is known as "The Prince of Peace"(Isaiah 9:6)
- So if you intentionally spend time with Peace, and hang out with Peace, He fills you with peace.
- It comes out of the Relationship.
- It's all about being in His presence and allowing His presence to fill you and then Peace will flow out of you.
- But if you are in the presence of TV, the news or social media then being in the presence of those things is what you will choose to fill yourself with.
- Those things will be the controlling factor in your heart.
- Make the choice today to eliminate all other voices and listen to the voice of Peace.
- Place yourself in His presence.
- Push yourself away from the TV... away from the computer... away from social media.
- Place yourself directly in the presence of Peace.
- Because if you notice, Colossians 3:15 says that if you are a Believer in Christ, then this is what you are called to.
- This is your Calling.
- The world can let all kinds of outside factors influence their life but not Christians.
- Your calling is to be a person who spends so much time in the Presence of Peace that a natural outflow is that they bring peace into every situation.
- You become identified with Peace.
- You carry Peace.
- Let His Peace be the deciding factor in your life.
- Let The Prince of Peace settle all of them questions that arise in your mind.
- You have a choice today.
- Choose Peace.
- Have a great Thursday.