One of these days I’m going to figure out how to get beyond just blogging once a month. I’m also still planning on finishing the “series” I started in my last post, but I just read this and thought it was interesting:
“There is what is called the “cushion of the sea.” Down beneath the surface that is agitated by storms, and driven about with winds, there is a part of the sea that is never stirred. When we dredge the bottom and bring up the remains of animal and vegetable life we find that they give evidence of not having been disturbed in the least, for hundreds and thousands of years. The peace of God is that eternal calm which, like the cushion of the sea, lies far too deep down to be reached by any external trouble and disturbance; and he who enters into the presence of God, becomes partaker of that undisturbed and undisturbable calm. – Dr. A.T. Pierson, quoted in “Streams in the Desert”
The verse at the beginning of the reading was Philippians 4:7. I had never read it in this translation before, but it lends a neat perspective: “And the peace of God, which transcends all your powers of thought, will be a garrison to guard your hearts and minds in Christ Jesus.”
What a beautiful promise.
