Great peace have those who love Your law, And nothing causes them to stumble. Ps119.165 NKJV
To love God is to love His word and to love His word is to keep it. Jesus explained that we live in His Father’s protective love when we do what He has told us to do. And, of the many benefits promised to the obedient heart, the peace of Christ is precious indeed. When it says that “nothing caused them to stumble,” this is another way of saying that nothing can disturb this peace. The peace of Christ is not just undisturbed, it is undisturbable. It is His “great” peace and it stands guard over one who is loving God and being loved by Him. When such a peace reigns in us obstacles are seen as part of God’s agenda for the moment, if only to provide an opportunity for greater faith hope and love.
If it sounds overly spiritual or insanely unimaginable that a person can live in a state of undisturbable peace, we need only to remind ourselves that such peace is said, after all, to “pass all understanding.” That we do not have this peace is probably because it is only found on the other side of an obedient faith. 8/25/07 ts
Just me trying to be honest with God.
