Daily Devotion
With Pastor Ancel Presnell
“CHRIST JESUS GIVES PEACE”
One of the names of Jesus is “The Prince of Peace.” Jesus not only came in peace, but He promoted peace the entirety of His earthly ministry. It is one thing to promote and live out a peace promoting life, but it’s a whole other issue to gift people with inner peace that outpowers the most severe times of turmoil.
Jesus provides peace for the soul of man! This cannot be achieved by human will or effort. This is only achieved by Christ conquering death and the grave! Death and the grave are byproducts of the sinful fall of man; everyone is going to die and there is nothing we can do to change that reality. There was someone who did change that reality for all who believe upon His name and efficacious work on the cross! His name is Christ Jesus!
The world gives a peace that is contingent upon all things going well within the world. The economy must be good, the relationships between nations and leaders must be good, and the provision for basic needs and necessities of human survival must be good. Well, we all know that the world does not give those things to everyone, so how can we have peace despite all the troubles of this world. We were left peace by Christ as a gift to all who trust and believe in Him!
No matter what this world hands us! No matter how bad things can get in our life or the world around us; Christ has overcome the world and all its troubles, and one day soon, He is going to call His church home, and we will be with Him forever! Christ has gifted us with present and everlasting peace, and this peace flows from the realities of His resurrection!
John 14:27— “27 Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.”
