Oswald Chambers: Peace - Life in the SpiritSample

After being born again a man experiences peace, but it is a peace maintained at the point of war. The wrong disposition is no longer in the ascendant, but it is there, and the man knows it is. He is conscious of an alternating experience, sometimes he is in ecstasy, sometimes in the dumps; there is no stability, no real spiritual triumph. To take this as the experience of full salvation is to prove God not justified in the Atonement.

To be a believer in Jesus Christ means realizing that what Jesus said to Thomas is true: “I am the way, the truth, and the life.” Jesus is not the road we leave behind as we travel, but the Way itself. By believing, we enter into that rest of peace, holiness, and eternal life because we are abiding in Him.

Reflection Questions: What kind of peace do we gain by force? What does it take to maintain that kind of peace? Why is agreement with God necessary for genuine peace?

Quotations taken from Biblical Ethics and Approved Unto God © Discovery House Publishers