October 26

October 26.

"Peace I leave with you. My peace I give to you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Your heart must not be troubled or fearful." John 14:27

Two artists went out to paint a picture of peace. One painted a silvery lake embosomed deep amid the hills, where no storm could ever touch it-calm, sweet, quiet in its shelter. The other painted a wild sea, swept by tempests, strewn with wrecks-but rising out of the sea a great rock, and in the rock, high up, a cleft, with herbage and flowers amid which, on her nest, a dove was sitting. The latter is the true picture of Christian peace.

Anybody can be confident-when there is nothing to disturb, no danger, no storm. Anybody can be happy-when there is no trouble, nothing to hurt or vex. Anybody can be patient-when there is nothing to make one impatient. Any little lake can be smooth and glassy-when there is no wind to ruffle it, or when it is hidden away within a wall of mountains. But we want a religion which will help us to have peace-when the sorest trials are upon us! How can we get this peace? Only by hiding in Christ!