Let the Peace of God Rule in Your Hearts

December 26.

The peace of God, which passeth all understanding,
shall keep your hearts and minds
through Christ Jesus.

PHILIPIANS 4, verse 7.


Let the peace of God rule in your hearts.

COLOSIANS 3, verse 15.


Drop Thy still dews of quietness,
Till all our strivings cease;
Take from our souls the strain and stress,
And let our ordered lives confess
The beauty of Thy peace.

J. G. WHITTIER.


"These things write we unto you, that your joy may
be full." What is fulness of joy but peace? Joy is
tumultuous only when it is not full; but peace is
the privilege of those who are "filled with the knowledge
of the glory of the Lord, as the waters cover the sea."
"Thou wilt keep him inperfect peace, whose mind is
stayed on Thee, because he trusteth in Thee."It is
peace, springing from trust and innocence, and then
overflowing in love towards all around him.

J. H. NEWMAN.


THROUGH the spirit of Divine Love let the violent,
obstinate powers of thy nature be quieted, the hardness
of thy affections softened, and thine intractable
self-will subdued; and as often as anything contrary
stirs within thee, immediately sink into the blessed
Ocean of meekness and love.

G. TERSTEEGEN.