Do you want it?
Here’s the thing if you don’t want it you are never going to get it. This is a profound statement. For me it has rang true and I am still hoping it applies to other areas of my life. This applies to you also, “For peace, to get it you have to want it.”
The question is, “How badly do you want it?”
Do you know what it is?
How do you know if want it if you don’t know what it is? It’s more than a feeling, but a way of life. Somebody has to tell you about it.
It is that simple!
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Peace do you know how to get it?
You don’t have to perform or do anything special, you simply ask. It is a gift that we don’t earn and it doesn’t even come with strings attached.
You just have to keep an open-mind and a receptive heart. It helps to go to a place where they talk about it. There are also plenty of books about it and one book in particular that shares the Word.
Growing Out of My Shame is how I got it!
Do you know how good it is?
It is something that breaks us free of our past and gives us hope for our future. When we are feeling low, it picks us up. It is forgiving, when we feel we are undeserving.
Do you know of anything else like it?
Once you get it, “peace,” then what? Do you know what to do with it?
Since it’s a gift, regardless of who we are and what we do, it’s too good to hold onto. It feels really good to offer it to others.
Who can you give it to?
When do you need it?
There are times, when life is going well, you will appreciate it. It will give you a grateful attitude.
During times of hopelessness it’s good to have it around. If someone is sick or in a crisis it’s there to lean on.
Sometimes in life you will get something and not want it. That is when the transformation will occur. It is the time when the non-believer with a receptive heart welcomes Christ into their heart. The result… Peace.
You need it during the good and bad times.
Peace to get it… Just believe.
Doing life with others can always be a challenge. I have developed my own coping skills to deal with life’s daily struggles. As a mother and wife I don’t like to witness my family suffer. It’s up to each of us individually to find the coping mechanisms that work.
Off and on throughout my life I attended church but was not a firm believer. There was something lacking in my life and I did not live a peaceful existence. It wasn’t until out of desperation I asked God for the gift. And, He generously delivered Christ into my life.
Christianity is a personal choice, you have to want it to get it.
This past Sunday as I left for church by myself, I crafted this blog post. I invited my daughter to church with me and her dad. Immediately, she shot me down, so I asked her to just consider it. That’s all I can do. I overslept and ended up going to church alone.
Sunday Morning Series is a blog category where I will share my struggles with Christianity and the Church. So many of us don’t have coping skills, so we resort to addictions and anger. When we choose recovery we are given tools to help us cope. My coping skills are building a relationship with God through Jesus Christ foremost, Yoga, working my steps, and writing.
What coping skills do you have in place to maintain a peaceful existence?
Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives; the one who seeks finds; and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened.
Matthew 7:7-8 NIV
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