Aarons Hands

Let not your heart be troubled…

I was reading my favorite chapters in John today and stopped here…

John 14:27 “Peace I leave with you; My peace I give to you; not as the world gives, do I give to you.  Let not your heart be troubled, nor let it be fearful.”

So many things jump out to me as I meditate on what Jesus is saying here…. Peace (quietness, rest, the opposite of strife with an element of joining that Peace)- Christ left us…is leaving me HIS PEACE…HIS REST…HIS DEEP BREATHE.- not as the  KOSMOS (greek word) gives ….what does this mean? How does the Kosmos, the World give something to me?  Temporally? Conditionally? And then He gives me a command….

We talk a lot about the promises in the Word of God, but how often do we talk about the direct sentences…the commands, the “to do” statements.  Jesus is telling me….Charlene, ” DO NOT let your heart be troubled or fearful”- that means I have a choice. I can either let it be troubled and fearful or I can CHOOSE not to.  I think I knew this somewhere, but I wasnt ever sure that Jesus commanded it.

Fearful here is the greek word that means to be timid…or to FLEE.  When I get overwhelmed, when I disappoint people, when I feel hurt and confused….I let my heart get TROUBLED and FEARFUL and the only thing I can think to do in that moment is to Flee….hmm, not original.

So, today I choose to be Powerful. The word says that HE has not given me a spirit of Fear (or fleeing) but of LOVE, POWER, and a SOUND MIND.  So…today, I choose to NOT LET MY HEART BE TROUBLED or FEARFUL…but to receive, live in, and bath in …..HIS PEACE (rest, assurance, love). So today, I stand a Powerful Child of the King, able to make good decisions.

What about you?