Digging Deeper: Unending Peace
And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.
Philippians 4:7 (NIV)
UNENDING PEACE
My wife and I love mysteries. Movies, TV shows, anything that lays out something that is puzzling or unexplained just captures our attention. Philippians 4:7 is, to me, one of the greatest mysteries in the Bible.
“And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.”
I don’t understand this. Which, naturally, agrees with “transcends all understanding.” But even though I don’t understand it, I love it. I love that our Good Father in Heaven is not bound by what we can understand. I love that He is not bound by what we say is natural, or reasonable. And, I love that He promises, no matter what, that His peace can always be with us.
One of my favorite lines of a worship song says, “Every promise you’ve made, is as good as done.” Philippians 4:7 is a promise from the Lord. If we reference Philippians 4:6 and “in every situation, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God,” it is as good as done that His peace will guard our hearts and minds.
It is not to say that He will shelter us from difficult times. Far from it. The Bible promises that we as Christians WILL see tough times. But He promises in Psalm 23 to “Prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies.”
Praise God that He is always faithful to what He says, that He is FOR us, and that there is nothing that can ever separate us from His love!
Josh Neal and his family have been members of NorthStar Church since 2016. He is married to his lovely wife, Mallory, and has three children: Ember, Clover, and Jack. He loves being a part of the prayer ministry at NorthStar, and enjoys everything from Georgia Tech Football, to hunting, to writing.