1. For those of us who recognize the disciples’ despair in ourselves, Jesus comes with the same word: “Relax, it’s me. Peace be with you.”
  2. It’s God’s love that sets us free to love in the first place.
  3. Jesus offers to the anxious soul the one thing it ironically wants: certainty of the good.
  4. Though envy whispers to us that peace can only be found by “keeping up,” Jesus whispers to us a better word: “Come to me all you who are weary and burdened and I will give you rest.”
  5. The Bible is a book for the desperate. That is its target audience. Recognizing our desperation readies us to hear the consolation that only God’s Word can offer.
  6. Christian peace is not the absence of problems, but it is the presence of God amid our pain and sorrows.
  7. Christians are in a unique position to show the world something truly other-worldly. We are free from living in our world as if it contained all there is.
  8. Jesus has conquered the storm’s power to condemn me – for by his death on the cross for my sins, he has removed any barrier between God and myself.
  9. Because peace is a gift and not a product, you can’t work your way into it. However—you can receive it by grace.
  10. The unbeliever will search for relief from temptations in worldly prescriptions and pleasures. The believer searches for answers in the promises of the One who can bring true lasting peace in mind, body, and soul.
  11. Justice and love are united in God, and we see this most clearly in Jesus on the cross. There, both God's hatred toward sin and compassion for the world come together.
  12. Jesus’s followers aren’t ostriches who bury their heads in the sand. That’s not helpful or hopeful for anyone. Resting from life’s trials and troubles comes in the remembrance of the One who is with you in the middle of all of them.
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