“…The peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts.” (Philippians 4:7)  

In today’s world of troubles and exceeding challenges, complete and consistent obedience to the word of God is the only source of struggle-free life for any child of God. Disruption, frustration and every other forces of concern is inhabited in the inability to trust and hold on to the promises that are constantly mentioned in the pages of the Bible. The inability to trust in the word of God is an evidence of disobedience. The word of God says, “Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God; 7 and the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.”(Philippians 4:6) It’s easy to memorize and quote verses in the Bible but when a challenge shows up in an unexpected way or at a crucial hour, it becomes very difficult to remember not to be anxious. It is easy to read, tell or teach how Father Abraham engaged in a journey of faith, a journey where God requested for his son Isaac to be used for sacrifice. However, it is not easy to take such a journey into one’s life. The point here is, through the journey of Abraham to the ground of sacrifice, there was no record of complaint or pain neither was there any evidence of anxiousness demonstrated by Abraham. The record of the journey to MountMoriah sounded so smooth and unscathed. Abraham’s journey was rooted in his obedience to the word of God. As a result, the journey became struggle-free instead of it being a journey of all kinds of pain and struggle. Abraham obeyed God because he trusted that the One that gave him a child at a very old age of ninety-nine must have something in store for him. As a believer, what area in our journey of life has become painful, disruptive, or offsetting to our comfort? How are we dealing with it? Is there any sign of anxiousness in our response? Are we struggling with the confronting situations? As a believer, is there any obedience to the living word of God? “…For He Himself has said, ’I will never leave you nor forsake you.’” (Hebrews 13:5) The words of God have been, and are being deposited in our life. How long will it take for us as a believer to begin mixing the word of God with faith so that it can become profitable for us in every confronting situation of life? The word of God is written for us to wrap it around ourselves so it can produce an enviable result before the unbelieving world that surrounds us. Hebrews 4:2, “For indeed the gospel was preached to us as well as to them; but the word which they heard did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in those who heard it.” It is evident in the word of God that every believer has a role to play before the word of God could bring forth results. Mixing the word with faith is acting on the word of God. Without any doubt, by virtue of the documentation of Abraham’s reaction when he left for the journey of sacrifice, Abraham had peace and was without struggle. He responded to God when he: “…Rose early in the morning and saddled his donkey, and took two of his young men with him, and Isaac his son; and he split the wood for the burnt offering, and arose and went to the place of which God had told him.” (Genesis 22:3) The word of God talked about a peace that surpasses all understanding (Philippians 4:7). Abraham’s response was clearly with peace that surpasses all understanding. Reading and memorizing the word of God is far from enough in generating peace that surpasses all understanding. Mixing the word of God with faith will not happen within a few minutes or couple of hours a week in Bible study. However, it is clearly demonstrated that meditating morning, day, and night is what will be the grinding force that will enable the word of God to become mixable in every believer. Philippians 4:8, “Finally, brethren, whatever things are true, whatever things are noble, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report, if there is any virtue and if there is anything praiseworthy—meditate on these things.” Indeed, the word of God is noble, just, pure and lovely, of good report and it is praise worthy. Meditate and you will have a struggle-free journey in the midst of challenges.

 
“Word of God is easy to quote but to put it on as coat is work”.

“The word of God is the only source of a struggle-free life this challenging world”

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