You will keep in perfect peace those whose minds are steadfast, because they trust in you. Isaiah 26:3

We make thousands of decisions every day based on trust. So much so that we don’t even give them much thought. Have you ever lay in bed thinking, “I wonder if gravity will work today?” When you get to the office do you ‘check’ your chair to make sure it’s not broken? Do you spend your day focusing on making sure you are breathing? Do you carry a stethoscope with you to regularly check to be sure your heart was still beating?

Hopefully, your response is no. In fact, you may have read those examples and wondered what I’m thinking! We live our lives in peace in these areas because our past has taught us that we can trust certain things like gravity and bodily systems to work in certain ways.

Peace is a choice. We can live in peace in the midst of struggle or we can can respond with fear, worry, anger or a host of other emotions. When we view our struggle as something in our control, and we don’t feel we have the ability to overcome, all sorts of peace-robbing thoughts and fears enter our minds.

These thoughts destroy peace in our relationships, our sleep or our daily lives. We can choose peace in a situation when we know in our hearts that we can trust the outcome, not because we have a solution, but because we know who can and will handle the struggle on our behalf.

That ‘handling of the struggle’ may not mean it’s removal but it assures us that in the midst of the battle we will have an inner strength because we trust the one who loves us beyond measure and promises to always be there for us.

Live in peace based on the almighty power of Jesus, our peace giver, our Prince of Peace.