A Peace that Passes All Understanding_ In Philippians 4:7, we are promised peace that passes all understanding. it is interesting to me what this scripture in the Bible can mean from day to day. One day this Peace will mean that I can handle dealing with the many tasks that await me. Another day, it will mean that I can forgive a wrong done to me. I think that the interesting aspect of this Peace is actually allowing it to wash over you. In the heat of a busy day, a frustration irritation, a person doing wrong to you...you do not feel like letting go and letting God work in the situation. Honestly, what one of us ever feels like letting something go when you are hurt? The important understanding it to realize that we are too often letting the wrong element of thinking rule over us in our lives. The Peace of Christ is to be ruling in our hearts. The Peace spoken of, this "Peace of Christ", doesn't look like our human term of peace. As humans, we would have peace be our avoidance of difficulties, or people rushing to apologize to us for their wrong they have done to us. Jesus offers peace during the frustration. He offers comfort of our Spirit when someone has wronged us. If we yield to it, the Peace made available in Christ will take on a life of its own within us. The next time you are in the heat of irritation, stop, if just for a minute, there is a small nudging within you to calm down. Give it special attention. That nudging is actually the Holy Spirit trying to offer aid to you in your troubles. We want peace to rush in trumpets blazing and an immediate "calm" to rush over our bodies as if this ideological state of "utter peace" is just going to move in where there once was total frustration. Mostly likely, it's not going to look like that. The Peace that comes from Christ starts as a whisper in your inner being, and when you choose to listen to it...that is when the intensity will grow. We have to want to feed the nudging of the Holy Spirit. The more that we allow the gentle nudging of the Holy Spirit to be the "message" that we listen to, the more we will be met with encouragement in the Holy Spirit to yield to it. This yielding is going to mean effort on your part. You will have to push down the frustrating feelings that your emotions are having, in order that you can act on the calm. Trust that you can listen to the calm that is being offered you. You aren't going to want to do it out of emotion, you are going to have to trust that Jesus is offering something better, and we overcome evil with good. This trust is going to stretch, but the trust will be met with aid from the Holy Spirit so that you can follow the will of Christ for you to have Peace be at rule in your heart. Pastor Daniella https://twitter.com/pastordaniella myalabasterbox.org