What do you want more than anything else in this world?
I think love probably tops the list -- to love and to be loved as you are, fully and forever.
Peace belongs pretty high on that list, too. This seems especially true given all the conflict in the world. What if you were at complete peace with yourself, not anxious or worried or self-critical or depressed? What if you were at peace with all your relationships, where there was no criticism or infighting or gossip? How would that feel? It'd be light and joyous and wonderful, I think. To be at complete peace with yourself and your relationships means you can rest in who and how you are.
Jesus gives us peace with God, which means that we can enter the throneroom of grace and stand confidently before God. To know this, to truly know this, means we can withstand anything in this world, because we know that we're going to spend eternity in the presence of God. That's how we develop hope, because we know that we know that we know that we are at peace with God, the single most powerful being in the universe, and that it's given as a free gift that we don't have to earn.
Through the love of Jesus Christ, we can enter into God's rest, at peace forever.
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