Lord, Be My Peace Today

Some days I wake up and my mind is already racing. The worries start before my feet hit the floor.

The mental checklist. The thing I said yesterday that I wish I could take back. The conversation I'm dreading today. The problem is that I don't know how to fix it. And I'm already anxious before the day has even begun.

I keep thinking if I could just get everything under control, if I could fix this situation, resolve that conflict, make sure everything goes according to plan, then I'd finally have peace. But it never works that way. Even when things go right, there's always something else waiting to unsettle me.

But Jesus said "Peace I leave with you; my peace I give you. I do not give to you as the world gives." The world's peace is conditional. It depends on everything going right.

But His peace? It's different.

It doesn't require perfect circumstances. It doesn't evaporate when life gets hard. Because it's not based on what's happening around me, it's rooted in who is with me.

Peace isn't something I find. It's Someone I abide in. When I have Jesus, I have peace, not because He removes every difficulty, but because His presence is steady when everything else isn't.

Today will bring moments that threaten to steal my peace. And in those moments, I have a choice. Chase the illusion of control, or turn to the One who is my peace. I'm learning to do this in real time. The instant I feel peace slipping, I breathe His name. I remember His presence. I let Him calm what's rising within me.

Today, I don't need everything to go smoothly. I just need Him. Because He is my peace.