PEACE LIKE A RIVER!

For thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will extend peace to her like a river. Isa 66:12a  

I can bet there are people, since Covid19 visited us, who have never lacked their sleep. You will not find them ransacking the news channels, poring over the number of deaths and projections. These people are fixed. They know whom they believe. And ‘though the earth be removed, and though the mountains be carried into the midst of the sea, though the waters thereof roar and be troubled, though the mountains shake with the swelling thereof,’ they will not fear. They have been searched. God knows them. And that is what matters.

It is disheartening to lose a loved. It is even more distressing to see how they are being buried. In a moment they are gone. It is heartbreaking. And yes it matters. But there is an even more urgent thing that matters. How shall the living cope? Shall we die too because we see no hope or no end in this thing? No, we are going to live. We must live.

There are things which we can only hear in silence, and things which we can see only when the streets are empty. May those empty places speak to us now…like I can read in one this: The just shall live by faith. Another: I will not leave you comfortless. Another: I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live. Another: Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him. And in another: And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.

Yes it is possible to sleep through a storm now. And when such a peace comes and finds you, my dear brother or sister, you will never doubt that it was from God. Father, give us this peace!

HopeisnotAshamed