Troubling Times

These are troubling times.  We live in a pandemic and every day we hear numbers.  They are numbers of infected people, numbers of people in hospital, numbers of people in intensive care, numbers of people who died today.  Those are not just numbers.  Those are people, sick people, lives lost.  People.  Friends.  Family.  You should be troubled.  But you don’t have to be terrified.  You can live in peace.

Around me I see so many people who are scared, upset, traumatized or angry.  They are angry at COVID-19.  They are angry that leaders can’t fix things.  They are angry at the COVID regulations which are our leaders way of tyring to fix things.  People are upset and they certainly are not living with peace within themselves.  It is scary, and the older you are the scarier it is.  But there is a promise of peace available to us.  There is a way to live at peace in the midst of catastrophe.  No, we don’t have to hide our head in the sand or shut our ears to the newscasts.  God Himself promises us that He will bring us peace if we allow Him to do so.  Jesus’ words to us are recorded in the Bible in the book of John,

            “I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace. In this
             world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world.”

I find myself at peace in these troubling times.  Jesus is my peace.  I have asked Him to come to me and live within me and have a relationship with me.  The result is the peace He promised.  Even though these are troubling times I have peace within me.  You, too, can have this peace.