Constant Chaos.

Rom 15:13  Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that ye may abound in hope, through the power of the Holy Ghost. 

Joh 14:27  Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid. 

God said to me, "My peace is eternal peace."

Truly the world cannot give us eternal peace. Most people are grateful for a few moments of peace in this crazy messed up Satan ruled world. They grapple for peace from the chaos of living. It's a day to day struggle that assaults all of us. And peace eludes us because the world's anxiousness has infected us with a disease of constant chaos. 

The constant chaos has varying degrees. The constant is that it is always there, the varying degrees makes it so that it can appear quite subdued and bordering on giving away to peace, but then at the slightest provocation the constant chaos begins its ascent. Sometimes that ascent accelerates at a speed we can barely believe exists it is so fast. One moment the constant chaos is ebbed at a low hum of what we know as tolerability, and the very next moment it is screaming at a high roar of unfathomable magnitude. The volume on the chaos has been cranked up in one quick, smooth motion. At other times the constant chaos begins a gradual ascent barely inching up over time but nonetheless it increases, getting us further and further away from a comfortable chaos we've trained ourselves to live in. The thing is, we've really done that. We've conditioned ourselves to live in the chaos of our world, by adopting the various bits and pieces of the chaos we can, and accepting them. When the chaos steps out of our conditioned acceptance and starts to roar around us we long to retreat, we cry out for a moment of peace!  Then quite often the chaos tones down, it lessens to the point of our tolerability and while we might not claim it as a perfect peace, it is our way of life. Chaos lurks all around us, it hides behind every door, it rushes in a barely open window, it slaps us in the face when we least expect or want it, we live the constant chaos life.

God's peace is NOT like this world's peace. It's not a moment of peace here and there, it's not the low chaos life we call peaceful but know it's really not entirely peaceful at all. The stresses and worries we try to leave behind - to get away for a bit of peace and quiet, are still there waiting patiently or not so patiently in the back of our thoughts looking for the tiniest of openings in order to wiggle back up the chaos volume ever so stealthily. The peace we grapple for and seem to rarely find in this world is a peace of false hope taking us up to the pinnacle of happiest only to dash us down upon the rocks of life's upset, time and time again. We live in a Satan run world of that there is no doubt and he'll pass up NO opportunity to give us the false security of the peace this world has to offer. He dangles it before us over and over and like an eager kitten pouncing on a toy feather - we can't resist grabbing that peace he gives. We have to know on some level it is a temporary peace more than likely setting us up for a great fall into chaos, but still we want that momentary reprieve from constant chaos and after-all Satan tells us that maybe just maybe, this time the world produced peace he's offering will last a bit longer than last time. Satan does not want us seeking the peace our God has to offer us. Satan tells us that we must have peace NOW, we deserve a rest from the chaos right this moment, right now in this life we live! We shouldn't have to wait for who knows how long to get the peace God offers. We shouldn't have to place our hope in heaven, setting our affection on things above. Our focus shouldn't be on the eternal life He alone offers us, we have to deal with this current life, right? It's much more important that we focus on the here and now, getting peace wherever and whenever we can, and lamenting all the chaos that interferes with our peace. We want crumbs of the peace pie that fall all around us, rather than placing our desire on the whole pie that we can only get in eternity. Scrambling like rats for the crumbs leftover, thinking we can only survive by eating the crumbs. Satan has a million deceptions to drag us into his world giving peace, all set to keep us from the peace God can and will give us!  God says…

Joh 14:27  Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid. 

God said to me, "My peace is eternal peace." 

Our hearts are not to be trouble or afraid when we have the eternal peace, the gospel, the good news of salvation- eternal life that awaits all through the love of Jesus Christ who sacrificed Himself for us, to give us this hope now for eternal peace. Peace that this world can never, ever give to us. Our affections must be set on things in heaven, the eternal, the unseen, the past, future, and present of heaven's promises through the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit now and forever! The world's constant chaos ebbing and flowing will seek to distract us from the only real, everlasting peace to come- when our Savior returns for us. He is our HOPE, our Heaven Hope, our Heaven Peace. To have heaven's peace now is knowing the reward that will come after being immersed in Satan's world of constant chaos. Above all the chaos- large and small, above all the temporary peace teasing us with its deception, is the true peace, God's peace. 

Come, Lord, Jesus, come. We long to receive Your promised peace, our affections are set in heaven, with You always! You are the hope in Us now and forever!  By Your will, Your grace, Your mercy, Your love everlasting.

Amen.