Peace Thru a Relationship with God
“Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you. Not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your hearts be troubled, neither let them be afraid.”
John 14:27
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In the Theology class I take through Samford we most often gather together online. But once or twice a month our instructor affords us the opportunity to meet in person. We meet at the Alabama Baptist Association building here in Montgomery. When there I love to grab myself a copy of the Alabama Baptist to read during breaks. I usually skim the articles and head straight to the Wordsearch. I am a word search junkie. The words are biblical and related to the articles in the issue. Recently, I was almost done with it, but I simply could not find the last word. Peace. After a lengthy struggle, I found it. Satisfied, I put the newspaper away in my backpack and went on with my night.
But I quickly returned to the search. The hardest thing to find was peace. This was so true in my life as well. The hardest thing in all our lives is to find peace.
Studies show that one of the top issues today is mental health and happiness. We are more connected than ever before with each other, but each successive generation is lonelier than the last. The world tells us we will be happy if we buy the latest gadget, car or clothes. Or if we constantly travel. If we go online we can “find” happiness and peace through alleged connections with strangers in social media or images of a naked girl to temporarily please us. But, the joy, happiness, and peace quickly leave us. So we go and look for something else to help- drugs, alcohol, or…
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