The In Touch Daily Devotional. Now available in easy to read large print. Order yours today. male announcer: “In Touch,” the teaching ministry of Dr. Charles Stanley. Next on “In Touch,” “The Narrow Path to Personal Peace.” Dr. Charles Stanley: Jesus said, “And My peace I give unto you, not as the world gives give unto you.
Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.” And He spoke those words to His disciples the night before He was going to be crucified. And of course, they didn’t quite understand what all this was about. They had an idea that something really tough was getting ready to happen, but He said, “My peace I give unto you.
” And if I should ask you this morning, do you have peace in your heart? I mean, do you have a settled sense of satisfaction, not that everything is right, but that you have a relationship with God whereby you’re convinced and persuaded or whatever you face in life, it’s gonna be okay because you have Him, the assurance that He is living within you? Your name is written in the Lamb’s Book of Life.
One of these days when you die, or He comes first, you know that you’re going to heaven, and all of this mess is gonna be over with, and things are gonna be right like He promised. Do you have that sense in your own heart? Well, we don’t live in a very peaceful age, that’s for sure. People do not have peace about their job, about their marriage, about their children, about the circumstances in which they live, or where they live, or how they have to live.
And so when Jesus comes along and He says, “My peace I give to you, not as the world gives.” That is, the world can’t give the kind of peace that Jesus offers. So I would ask you, do you have that kind of peace? Can you honestly say, “I have this sense of peace”? Now, the Greek word is “eirene,” which means to put something together.
That is, to bind it together. That is, when a person has genuine peace, we sense this togetherness in our heart. We sense this oneness, and without strife, and without consternation, and all the things that go on. The peace that Jesus Christ offers is peace that comes through relationship with Him. That’s the only true source of lasting peace.
Everything else in the world is counterfeit. You may have all the money in the world you want, go anywhere you choose, do most anything you wanna do, have most anybody you wanna have. But if you don’t have Jesus, you do not have peace. You don’t have to have anything else, and you don’t have to have anybody else to have peace.
