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John 14:27
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Peace I leave with you; my peace I give you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled and do not be afraid.
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The world gives with expectations and extolls a cost. The cost is placed upon others, aswell as your soul. For everything gained came by choices made.
The holiness of true spiritual peace, is given to those who seek it by the kingdom. The conscience that supplies this holiness bases this peace on the love which it glorifies. God is love, and the spiritual fruit of peace comes through us when we put aside our choice, and sincerely believe that there is purpose in our loving acts.
Peace comes through confidence it is available. This is not the calm from meditation nor the settling of aggression. Peace is spiritual not emotional nor physical. Peace is holy and complete, it is something we can seek out and rely upon. We seek out peace when we are acting by the will of the Father. So, we seek out peace when doing good works.
Jesus told his disciples to not worry or be afraid. He did this because if they remained in their emotional reactions, there would be no room for peace to act through them. Instead, they would be reacting by their knowledge of good and evil, instead of having faith to have holiness work through them. Jesus told them not to worry nor be afraid, not because he had concern for them, but because he knew that if they did, they would be blind to the will of God.
Peace overcomes what time and reaction supply. Peace should be sought out when those whom deserve love, are themselves worried or angry. Whether it be a friend, or an enemy; to have peace upon you, acting through you, surpasses the emotional static, or worldly urgency that causes people to react and make choices based on those reactions. See? We serve lovingly, so what fruits we seek are based on that love. And peace offers a greatness that glorifies the Father by His Truth.
What the world offers is dominion. Which is spiritual enslavement. It places in front of us, what our souls will cause our bodies to react to. The body itself can not sin, the soul's desire to satisfy it's own will, cause the body to sin. And everything we do that is done without faith; is sin.
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Romans 14:23
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But whoever has doubts is condemned if they eat, because their eating is not from faith; and everything that does not come from faith is sin.
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We are in motion. And as believers, we are called to serve the Father's purpose; which in the context of this letter, is to put ourselves aside to have peacefulness lovingly supply what we cannot on our own. So what is peace? An unseen quality of the power of God Almighty. We become a beacon for that light to shine through us, which others witness. The holiness makes non-believers recognize that something greater than ourselves is acting through us. So we go forward with the Father's purpose in our hearts and minds, showing the Father that our soul can be humble, and act lovingly, with sincerity. Just like the Truth he supplied us. Amen.
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