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“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” (John 14:27).
We saw yesterday that the Lord Jesus gives us perfect peace about our sins being washed away through faith in Him. But in the same verse He talks about another kind of peace, which He calls “my peace.” What does He mean?
The Lord Jesus never committed any sin, so that He did not need forgiveness, as we do. Rather, in today’s verse, He is speaking about peace in all the difficulties and problems of our everyday life. When the Lord Jesus walked through this world, He faced all the same situations that we face in our lives. Yet He accepted them from His Father, and then went to His Father in prayer about them. Many times during His life down here, we read of the Lord Jesus being in prayer. As a result He lived in peace about all these things.
Now, He gives us His peace. We can accept whatever God sends into our lives, and then go to God our Father about them. When we have done this, the difficulty may not go away, but we can have peace about it — the same peace in which the Lord Jesus walked through this world. This is truly something wonderful He has left to us!
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