Daily Affirmations - Day 6 - Spirit Language - The Language of Peace
- Alisa B.
- Jun 12
- 3 min read
Day 6: The language of peace
The Lord gives strength to His people; the Lord blesses His people with peace (Psalm 29:11).
O Lord, stay our hearts on You and speak through us the language of peace to the turbulent, chaotic world around us.
Lord, make me an instrument of your peace.
Where there is hatred, let me bring love.
Where there is offence, let me bring pardon.
Where there is discord, let me bring union.
Where there is error, let me bring truth.
Where there is doubt, let me bring faith.
Where there is despair, let me bring hope.
Where there is darkness, let me bring your light.
Where there is sadness, let me bring joy.
O Lord, grant that I may not so much seek
to be consoled as to console,
to be understood as to understand,
to be loved as to love,
for it is in giving that one receives,
it is in self-forgetting that one finds,
it is in forgiving that one is forgiven,
it is in dying that one awakens to eternal life.
~ (Wikipedia): English translation of complete original text from La Clochette ~
Our peace never can be more secure than that on which it depends. Our trust never can be more sure than that on which it leans. Only God is eternal, the same yesterday and today and forever, and only when we rest in God and trust in Him can we have a peace which cannot be disturbed. “Trust... in the Lord for ever... in the Lord Jehovah is everlasting strength.” (Isaiah 26:4).
When we are held in the clasp of His love, we are safe from any disturbance, for He is omnipotent. Our refuge is secure forever, for He is from everlasting to everlasting. We have the same teaching... in one of the epistles of Paul, in which he also gives us the secret of peace. “The peace of God… shall guard your hearts and your thoughts in Christ Jesus” (Philippians 4:7 - ASV).
The figure is military. Men sleep in quiet confidence in their tents, in the darkest nights, in time of war, in the presence of the enemy, because sentinels wake and watch through all the darkness. God’s own peace keeps guard over our hearts and thoughts, so that nothing shall ever disturb us or alarm us.
Nothing ever can disturb God. He looks without fear upon the wildest storms. He is never dismayed by things which seem to us calamitous. His infinite and eternal peace will guard us and keep us in the shelter of its own blessed quiet and calm.
This is part of the great secret of peace which we are trying to learn: “Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace...” (Isaiah 26:3). It is God’s omnipotence that keeps us. It is God’s Spirit who broods over the turbulent floods of life and brings order out of chaos.
It is God’s Son who stands on the vessel, amid the wild storms, and compels them to become quiet and still at his feet. It is God’s grace that enters into the believer’s heart and abides there as a well of living water within, springing up into everlasting life.
We cannot command our own spirit and compel it to be at rest, when sorrow or peril is on every side. God alone can keep us in peace. Nothing that is not infinite and eternal can be a safe and secure hiding-place for an immortal life.
~ James R. Miller ~ In Perfect Peace
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