Tuesday, August 13, 2013

Guarded

Philippians 4:7 And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.
 
This conjunctive sentence comes right after yesterday’s verse 6.  Go back and read it.

After we have prayed an effective prayer, and rejoiced in everything, and kept ourselves gentle in spirit and mind by giving thanks to God…then comes the answer to all of our prayers.

Peace.

It’s not real peace when we slide up and down the emotional scale of a high note when life is good, and the low minor notes when life is bad.  It’s a beautiful melody of notes that blend together in a sound that transcends all other music – it rises above all understanding.

Why? Because only that kind of peace, the kind that comes on the heels of obeying verses 1-6, will guard our hearts and minds.

From what?

From becoming hardened in our hearts, instead of tender towards the Lord.


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