A Quiet and Holy People

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Encouragement for your daily walk with God

Back in the third century, Cyprian, the Bishop of Carthage, wrote to his friend Donatus: "It is a bad world, Donatus, an incredibly bad world. But I have discovered, in the midst of it, a quiet and holy people who have learned a great secret. They have found a joy, which is a thousand times better than any of the pleasures of our sinful life. They are despised and persecuted, but they care not. They have overcome the world. These people, Donatus, are Christians, and I am one of them."

I just love the phrase, a quiet and holy people... There is so much yelling, and name calling, and sniping in this world. We are bombarded with these and many more things daily. Yet the true Christ follower can be quiet and holy. The word that comes to my mind is peaceful.  

There is a kind of peace that Christ followers can experience that blows the world away. Maybe because it is not of, or from this world. It is a Christ given peace to those who follow Him. Peace I leave with you; My peace I give to you; not as the world gives do I give to you. Do not let your heart be troubled, nor let it be fearful. [John 14:27]

That’s the kind of peace that people notice, especially when we display it through our troubled times — when we're despised, when we're persecuted, when we’re marginalized, when we’re in the middle of chaos. 

To quote an old movie title, we live in a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World — an incredibly mad world.  But we have victory in our Lord. Let's begin to trust God for that victory in a way we haven't before. Let His unworldly-like peace rule your heart and mind. 

And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to the which also ye are called in one body; and be ye thankful. Colossians 3:15