John 14:27 says, "Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid."
Have you ever felt that you were all alone? That no one else was there for you? That, no matter what you would do, you always had that "empty" feeling inside? I have been there. Plenty of times. I have gone through times, in my life, when I really didn't know which was was up. I felt all alone. I felt that, no matter what I would do and what I would say, I had no one to talk to and no one I could trust. That may not have been the case, but that is how I had felt at the time.
In my many times of turmoil, discouragement, and confusion, there is one thing that I found myself, not just asking, but begging God for...His Perfect Peace. There would be times when a huge battle was taking place in my battlefield that we call "the mind" and I would find myself, time after time, begging God to fill me with His Peace. I would ask Him to wrap His Arms around me - because, that's the only time I would feel "safe" from everything else going on in my life. There have been many times, and I can look back and remember many of them like it was yesterday, that I have wept because I could literally feel the Arms of my God wrap around me and reassure me that everything was going to work out.
There have been many times, way too many to count, when I had been going through a horrible (at least, horrible, in my mind) struggle and I have asked God for a scripture...this is the one He has given me countless times. I am so thankful for God's Perfect Peace...
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