“MY PEACE I GIVE TO YOU!”

John 14:27-31                               (ESV)

“27 Peace I leave with you; “MY PEACE I GIVE TO YOU”. Not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your hearts be troubled, neither let them be afraid.

28 You heard ME say to you, 'I am going away, and I will come to you.' If you loved ME, you would have rejoiced, because I am going to the FATHER, for the FATHER is greater than I.

29 And now I have told you before it takes place, so that when it does take place you may believe.

30 I will no longer talk much with you, for the ruler of this world is coming. He has no claim on ME,”

Several years ago I heard an interview with a famous actor from Hollywood that was asked what he would do differently if he had it all to do over again.   He had experienced success as a comedian, a star of several movies, had money, women, and everything “this world” has to offer, yet his answer was simply “I want PEACE”!  

JESUS said in John 14:27 “MY PEACE I GIVE TO YOU”.   Note that HE doesn’t say that we can earn HIS PEACE by doing good works like helping those less fortunate, or building a greater monument to his god!  JESUS simply says “MY PEACE I GIVE TO YOU” because HIS FATHER chose us before the foundation of the world!  Picture that the CREATOR OF ALL THINGS (Colossians 1:15-20) only left out one ingredient when HE made everyone of us, and that was “”MY PEACE I GIVE TO YOU”?  All we have to do to accept HIS offer is to have our eyes opened to SEE we need HIM?  Just like a recipe that has left out one key ingredient, we cannot he completed without GOD ALMIGHTY!!

John 14:30 says in part “...for the ruler of this world is coming. He has no claim on ME,...”.  The enemy, the ruler of “this world”, has NO CLAIM on JESUS and cannot offer the PEACE HE has to offer.  He tries to deceive and manipulate people into believing his peace is what they are looking for, but ultimately his answer for the empty space in our hearts can only be filled by our CREATOR, it’s how we were built!!!

Matthew 13:13-16 says we can SEE because we are BLESSED!  Only because we have been BLESSED with “MY PEACE I GIVE YOU” can we SEE the things HE reveals to us, NOT because we are so pure and worthy!  The enemy will attempt to replicate HIS PEACE.  But JESUS has forewarned us saying “Not as the world gives do I give to you”, but “MY PEACE I GIVE TO YOU”!!!