Oswald Chambers: Peace - Life in the SpiritSample

We limit ourselves and our conceptions of God by ignoring the side of the Divine Nature best symbolized by womanhood, and the Comforter surely represents this side of the Divine Nature. It is the Comforter Who sheds abroad the love of God in our hearts. It is the Comforter Who baptizes us into oneness with Jesus, in the amazing language of Scripture, until we are indwelt by a mysterious union with God. It is the Comforter Who brings forth the fruit of love, joy, peace, long-suffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, meekness, temperance. Guidance by His sympathy leads by a blessed discipline into an understanding of God which passes knowledge.

O Lord, remove this bondage of thought, and bring peace and purity and power. Fill me this day with Your tenderness and compassion and grace.

Reflection Questions: Why is it impossible to have peace with God if we are in conflict with the opposite gender? Why does peace require tenderness as well as power, purity as well as compassion?

Quotations taken from Christian Discipline and Knocking at God’s Door, © Discovery House Publishers