Many speakers preach about peace without knowing the peace bestowed by

Jesus Christ. They preach: "Are you afflicted with disease? Call unto

Jesus. He will cure you of your illness and grant you peace. Is your son

unemployed? Come to Jesus and he will receive employment and you will be

comforted. Is your daughter's marriage delayed? Fall at the feet of

Jesus and the marriage will materialize". As mentioned in I John 4:5,

"They are of the world. Therefore they speak as of the world, and the

world hears them", the people go after such speakers in large numbers.

Many half-baked persons claim, "I have accepted Jesus Christ believing

in Himself. I have received peace. My confusions are cleared. Disease

has vanished. My poverty is gone. I am full of happiness. Look at all

the great things God has done in my life. Would God do so many things in

our life if He did not love us. We lead a peaceful life". Thus, a large

part of Christians are content with worldly blessings and deceive

themselves believing that they got this peace as they worshipped

Jesus.

Look at the worldly people. "They have no struggles; their bodies are

healthy and strong. They are free from the burden common to man; they

are not plagued by human ills. Therefore pride is their necklace; they

clothe themselves with violence. They have more than heart could wish.

There are the ungodly who are always at ease; They increase in riches"

(Psalms. 73:3-12). Though they get these, do they get peace? Does it mean

that just because Christians too had received such benefits as the

worldly people, they have peace? Let us see the peace bestowed by

Jesus Christ in the light of the Holy Scriptures. God kept Adam and Eve

at Aden and had given them all they needed in abundance. Besides He had

walked among them and was their God. There was good relationship between

man and God. They were at peace. Satan intervened and gave an ill-advice

to transgress the commandment of God. The commandment of God was

transgressed by man and from then onwards, sin had separated man from

God. Man lost the peace. As sin increased, he distanced himself more and

more from God. Man's sorrow and sighing increased. We were without God

(Eph. 2:12) because of which our peace was destroyed. Like a little boy

going to the church with his father on the day of festival, engrossed in

sightseeing, leaving his father's hand and getting lost in the crowd and

finally desolate and restless frantically looking for his father,

mankind was deceived by satan, caught up in the vanity of this world,

distanced from the heavenly Father, not knowing the way to find Him

again, burdened and restless, meditating in caves and forests, they

yearned to somehow find God and reach heaven. All these efforts did not

give them peace. Lord Jesus Christ came to show the way to the Father to

us who had been like sheep which lost their way. He came and said: Come

to Me all who are weary and burdened (burdened by their inability to see

the Father), and I will give you rest (peace). I know the Father. I

reveal the Father to whom I choose. The path to reach the Father is

hidden from the wise and the learned (Matt. 11:25,27-28). All things for

showing the way to the Father have been committed to Me alone. Therefore

you come and learn the path and do likewise. Then you shall attain the

knowledge of God and through Me have fellowship with Him and find rest

(peace), said God Jesus (Matt. 11:27,29).

As Jesus came to this world there was glory to God in the highest, man

received peace as the gap between him and God was closed and there was

goodwill of God towards man who had till then been His enemy (Luke 2:14).

Jesus started fellowship with God. When there were yet many

things to be taught to them and as His time approached for being taken

up, Jesus told them: I have much more to say to you, more than you can

now bear. But when He, the Spirit of truth come, He will guide you into

all truth (John 16:12-14). The Holy Spirit will teach you all things and

will remind you of everything I have said to you. Do accordingly. Peace

I leave with you (John 14:26-27).

Following this, the disciples received peace. So long as a child of God

abides in His teaching, he would possess peace. As he is united with

Jesus, he could live with God. He would hear God's voice and do His

will. He may be famished, he may be starving, he may be without clothes

or he may be stricken by disease; whatever be the circumstances, even if

floods surround him, he will be at peace, that is , he will still have

God. This is the peace bestowed by Lord Jesus.

"You have filled my heart with greater joy than when their grain and

new wine abound" (Psalms. 4:7).