Peace

“And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.” The Peace of God will guard your hearts and minds… Doesn’t that give you a warm fuzzy feeling?  Our hearts and minds are guarded in Christ Jesus.  And how…

Just before this Paul urges the Philippians… “I urge Euodia and I urge Syntyche to be of the same mind in the Lord. ³Yes, and I ask you also, my loyal companion, help these women, for they have struggled beside me in the work of the gospel, together with Clement and the rest of my co-workers, whose names are in the book of life.”  The Philippians are to help Euodia and Syntyche to be of the same mind in the Lord. It doesn’t say we need to believe or understand the same thing. It does not say we have to agree on all the details. It says we have to be of the same mind in Christ. And this will guard out hearts and our minds in Christ.  Being of the same mind in Christ and agreeing we are together in Christ will allow us to Rejoice and seek everything that God wants for us through prayer and supplication. Agree you are one in Christ. Do not seek to believe the same thing, think the same thing, or thing agree on all of the details, we are one in Christ and in this we can have the peace the surpasses all understanding.

Gracious God, help us to seek to know we are united with each other through you and for your faithfulness to go to the cross and help us to not have to convince everyone we have to agree on the details, but allow us to live in the fact that your cross has already united us….