Oswald Chambers: Peace - Life in the SpiritSample

The coming of Jesus Christ is not a peaceful thing, it is a disturbing, an overwhelming thing. Am I willing to be born into the realm Jesus Christ is in? If so, I must be prepared for chaos straight off in the realm I am in. The rule which has come in between God and man has to be eclipsed, and Jesus Christ’s entering in means absolute chaos concerning the way I have been looking at things, a turning of everything upside down. The old order and the old peace must go, and we cannot get back peace on the old level.

When Satan rules the hearts of natural men under the inspiration of the devil, they are not troubled, they are at peace, entrenched in clean worldliness (cf. Psalm 73), and before God can rule a man’s kingdom He must first overthrow this false rule.

Reflection Questions: What chaos must I pass through to reach peace? What disturbance is required to overcome the old order? What false rule must be overthrown?

Quotations taken from Servant as His Lord, © Discovery House Publishers