The Twenty-First Day of Advent

Saturday, December 21, 2019

The Wonder of What God Has Done Through His Son:

An Advent Devotional Guide

Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that you may abound in hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.

Romans 15:13

If you are thinking that you have heard this verse just a few days ago, you’re right. But don’t stop reading. I also told you that it is one of my favorite verses in the Bible. Keep reading, please.

When we thought about it before, we were considering hope. Now we are focusing on peace and according to this Scripture that is one of the things with which our hope-filled God wants to fill us – peace. (Next week, we are going to think about joy, and I promise not to bring this verse back to you again, but I do hope you will remember that joy is a perfect companion for peace!) So how does this happen?

All of us know at least a little about physical laws. If we drop a pencil, we never look to the ceiling to see if it has landed there. No, the law of gravity takes our eyes to the floor. But we know less about spiritual laws, and this is, I believe, one of them. When we learn to believe God, this verse says we’re filled with peace – we need not look for confusion. The inevitable result of believing God is peace. Just as the pencil falls to the floor, peace enters the believing heart through faith. Natural and physical law.

Peace is a very important word in the Bible. It occurs about 200 times in the Old Testament and 50 times in the New Testament. Probably we can draw the conclusion that God really wants us to know peace – His peace.

Father, Help us to take the peace you want to give us and to allow that peace to prevail by not trying to take back control of our lives! Amen

The Wonder of What God Has Done Through His Son:

An Advent Devotional Guide
prepared for First United Methodist Church of Homosassa, Florida
Winter 2009
by Patience Nave, Christian Education Coordinator