How do we have peace?

When we walk with the Lord in the light of His Word,

What a glory He sheds on our way!

While we do His good will, He abides with us still,

And with all who will trust and obey.


Refrain


Trust and obey, for there’s no other way

To be happy in Jesus, but to trust and obey.


Not a shadow can rise, not a cloud in the skies,

But His smile quickly drives it away;

Not a doubt or a fear, not a sigh or a tear,

Can abide while we trust and obey.


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Not a burden we bear, not a sorrow we share,

But our toil He doth richly repay;

Not a grief or a loss, not a frown or a cross,

But is blessed if we trust and obey.


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But we never can prove the delights of His love

Until all on the altar we lay;

For the favor He shows, for the joy He bestows,

Are for them who will trust and obey.


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Then in fellowship sweet we will sit at His feet.

Or we’ll walk by His side in the way.

What He says we will do, where He sends we will go;

Never fear, only trust and obey.

This is a song that my mom used to sing to me when I was a little girl. 

Why is it that it feels so much easier to trust and obey the Lord when you are young? I am trying to think about choices that I had had to make as a younger me... Thinking back, there have been hard times and easy times of obedience, but, most times it has cost, and it is hard. 

But to be at peace in your heart, knowing that you are doing all that he asks of you, this is what it means to be walking with the Lord. That is the joy of this life. Even when all those around you look at your choice or the way that you chose to make the decision and find you unstable, even more, when I look at what God is saying and find a million reasons why it shouldn't be, I WILL learn how to trust and obey. It is never too late to choose to obey, despite how it may feel.

Lord teach me what your voice sounds like. Teach me how to trust you more. I am holding you to this time of obedience. You will use this Lord. You must use it. You prepare us for future good works, you are working and have a good plan.... All in order to glorify you the more. 

Allow my heart and the heart of the ones I love to know you more through this time. That you would be all the more real to us. Hold our hearts. Don't allow us to become jaded, or hard. Teach us. Bless us. Not because we deserve this, but because you promise to never leave or forsake, and that is a blessing in its self. 

Please give me strength Jesus, because disobedience brings pain. Pain that is felt by myself, but also the ones that I love the most.  Ultimately acts of obedience to you Lord are the most loving acts one can take. Help me to be loving and kind, full of your grace, and your truth. Sustain me when I feel weak, because I feel weak. 

Thank you for not being a God that punishes. When you are leading me somewhere I don't want to go, it is not because you are mad or withholding something good. YOU are enough!! You are able to bring peace to our hearts like no one else can... even when its hard or it hurts...