It Is Well With My Soul

The more I have entered into relationship with God the more regularly I feel at peace. It is peace that would be impossible to go unnoticed; it is a freeing that takes over body, mind, and soul. It is through the Spirit that this peace comes, “I leave you peace; my peace I give you. I do not give it to you as the world does…” John 14:27. Prior to when I was living in the Spirit, in my old self, being at peace was something I knew nothing of. I had a very wonderful childhood and upbringing but before I came to faith in Christ I felt despair on a regular basis. As I have grown older I have learned how to live in the goodness of God. Where once there was survival I now experience joy, religion and guilt have been replaced by relationship and grace, dejection for hope, apprehensiveness for boldness, fear for freedom, doubt for trust, and hurt for security. I haven’t earned God’s love but accepted it; not having to achieve and strive to deserve his love has provided healing. Now I feel I understand life to the full in a new way, Her ways are pleasant ways, and all her paths are peace Proverbs 3:17. The confidence I have in Christ has made me a new person; the Spirit of power I experience (a learned presence I live in) has transformed my life and the way I live.