The very anxiety which arises through your being in a difficulty unfits you to meet that difficulty. On Jesus' bosom nothing but calm is found. You will keep him in perfect peace, peace, peace, whose mind is stayed on You, because he trusts in You. The mind is the main thing, it will bring you daylight or midnight, wealth or poverty, peace or war. Stay it on Him now, in this very hour, amid the roar of engines and the clouds that rush past your window. He is our peace.
Think not that peace comes because the circumstances grow still. The more disturbed a Christian man is, the purer is his peace; the heavier the rolling swell of his griefs and sorrow, the more still, and calm, and profound is the peace that reigns within his heart. This is not a stagnation of thought, a lull of anxiety, or a blindness to danger. It is the peace of God which passes all understanding, flowing like a river in unceasing activity. And it is the blood of Jesus that whispers peace within, peace through the blood which has made a full atonement. Seek not after peace first. Seek after Christ first. Peace will come next. He is our peace, and there is no peace worthy of the name that is to be found in any other way.
You are a thousand miles from home perhaps, and loved ones may be far away. Yet hear this: in Jesus' keeping we are safe, and they. The Lord will bless His people with peace. It is the peace of the Eternal Son of God, given to you. And if the tokens of deadly fear appear upon you, still be calm, for He will bless you with peace. Go in peace. This is your strength. Sometimes your strength is to sit still, and always, the joy of the Lord shall be your strength. Peace be unto you. It is He that speaks it, and before long peace is. My only word to you is, peace, peace, peace. I know your weaknesses. I know your deep regret. But He has said, "Peace I leave with you; My peace I give unto you."
Now, if in the land of peace, wherein you trust, they wearied you, how will you do in the swelling of Jordan? Surely it is time to pluck up courage and not be so easily disheartened. The peace by believing is a well-founded peace. A sea that has no bottom nor shore, a peace of intense restfulness. May you be plunged in it this very hour. Peace be unto you. Go in peace.