21 PEACE

I don't think I have covered the word Peace in my musings.

 I have been thinking about it a lot lately. Pretty much in the confines of the Whole Armor.

 The shoes of peace....putting them on and wearing them all day would certainly keep your heart and mind on The Prince of Peace. 

I am one who goes shoeless most of the time...maybe a carry over from childhood where we were lucky to have a pair of shoes for school and another one for Church. We didn't wear them much in the summer. 

 Greg, you said once to someone that if your Mother was in their home for 10 minutes and I didn't have my shoes off or were not crying, something was the matter. I admit that is true, I am more comfortable shoeless, and I am very emotional, about...well just about everything. (smile)  

 A movie? Definitely. A song? Absolutely!!! Something sweetly said...oh yeah!...well, most everything! 

So as I was putting on the Whole Armor the other day, and I was thinking along this line, it came to my mind...that perhaps, just perhaps I am too quick to slip my feet out of the shoes of Peace....You think? 

In my 'old age' I lose my cool too quickly and too easily. Can I blame it on old age? You bet!!! Is that really a good excuse? Not really. So I did what preachers do sometimes, to help you 'get and keep' the message...I'm not sure what they call them, but here is the result of mine...(whatever it is called) smile : 

P....Placing 
E....Everything 
A....Actively...Absolutely...Always...Appropriately (I  couldn't choose just one. smile) IN 
C....Christ's 
E....Embrace 

 So my peace does not depend on what I can conjure up, but on what Christ says in His Word. 

Mr. McGreggor, here's the deal...It doesn't matter what we say or do...(well it really does in the end)... God gives us peace in the midst of the storm, and those are not just words, they are God's words...
The same God who made the universe, the same one who created you and I. So today put on your shoes of Peace, tie the laces tight, so you cannot easily slip them off, and walk in His Peace today...
Not too much has changed, you still need a place to live, you don't have much to live on, but... 
God is the "same...yesterday...today...and forever." 

We don't know about tomorrow, and we can't change yesterday...but we sure do have a lot of input about TODAY!!!! (Our thoughts can make or break us.) We need to begin to tear down those 'strongholds' that we have allowed the enemy to build...brick by brick.....The strongholds are just that...STRONG HOLDS that the enemy has wound around our minds. 

 So brick by brick, thought by thought, resist the enemy, literally put your mind, at that moment on Jesus and His Peace that He has provided for us. Yep, that is the only way to be 'more than conquerors' thru Christ who loves us and made a way...where there seems to be no way. 

One single thought at a time!! 

So, Look up! Hang in there! Hang on tight to His hand.
We will see you here there or in the air. 
In the morning, Cray! 
Nanny/Marker