Peace

Today I have come to understand how Jesus isn't only enduring when He was here. He is—as a matter of fact, at peace. His mind isn't running through some sort of blaming, doubting and hurting. He is not filled by those things towards the Father, or even towards anybody.

I understand now, why, in the Lord's prayer, He was able to teach us how the Father in heaven is

Faithful. Faithful. Faithful. He is not a father who leaves a house and leaves a home broken. As Jesus said, He is a Father whose will can be done here on earth as it is in heaven. 

Loving. Loving. Loving. David can attest to it; prays, he's never seen a righteous man forsaken nor their children begging bread. And you do too--you never let a loved one go hungry, don't you?

Forgiving. Forgiving. Forgiving. Jesus witnessing how much the Father loves—His (Jesus) soiled, calloused feet walking the earth. The confidence that there is greater power in forgiveness. That love is also shown in the act of forgiving. That the greatest act of love the Father has done is yet to unveil in His life. At the cross. Few days from when He was teaching. He knows. But He is at peace. 

Jesus is not enduring the days. Jesus is not in a litany of a perishing world, of how ugly and of a some kind every people are. 

Oswald Chambers highlighted a text about Jesus' peace:

"the thirty years of quiet submission at Nazareth, the three years of service, the slander and spite, back-biting and hatred He endured, all unfathomably worse than anything we shall ever have to go through; and His peace was undisturbed, it could not be violated." 

Jesus imparted to us that peace—not like it, but that peace. 

So, whatever we may have on the table, hats we are wearing, shoes we fill in, may we never forget that we can remove any doubt, offenses, frustrations and just about anything else. We can be as peaceful as Jesus was because we have a faithful, loving and forgiving Father.

Our Father who is worthy, and who is Holy, Holy, Holy.