Jan

My cousin Jan found out a couple months ago that she has breast cancer. I read entries on Facebook today about her experience so far and at the center of it all is Jesus, the Prince of Peace. She has a PET scan that doesn't give a very good report, yet she is at peace. Starting next Wednesday, she is facing five days a week of treatment, yet she is at peace.

The peace that Jan is experiencing comes directly from knowing Jesus Christ as her personal Savior. No use trying to explain what this peace is like, just can't do it. This peace must be personally experienced, and it's for anyone, everyone who wants to know Jesus. This is not the kind of peace that evaporates with the first bad news we hear, and it's not the kind of well-being we occasionally feel when life is going well for us. This is peace that comes only through Jesus, it is of eternal value and nothing in this world can destroy it. It's a never changing peace that resides in the very deepest parts of our being. It's a peace that knows Who our consolation is. It's a peace that knows who our Provider is. It's a peace that covers all things and remains when big adversity comes into our lives. This peace of eternal value is ours through faith in the Lord Jesus, yes, He is Lord. It's yours too if you ask for it. It's a peace that trusts what the Lord says is true. Ps. 4:8, Isa. 26:3, John 14:27, John 16:33, Philippians 4:6-7.