The other day I was taking one of my morning walks. Being in nature usually helps me clear my head, and I take the opportunity to talk with the Lord and pray. It’s wonderful.

On this particular morning, I was going through the list of things I needed to get done and some different situations that were troubling me. In sum, I was sifting through different anxious thoughts when I felt the Lord say,

“I’ve given you my peace, child, because I’ve given you my peace child.”

Whoa.

This statement was particularly profound to me because it reminded me of a lesson from the Perspectives course Ronny and I took in the spring of 2018 (if you don’t know what it is, google it!). It’s a course on global missions and God’s plan for the world. One of the concepts was the idea of redemptive analogies, in other words, how to use different analogies to connect the gospel to a particular group of people’s story. 

One culture had a practice involving a peace child. If two groups were at war and choosing to enter into a time of peace, the leaders would exchange their firstborn children. This meant that they trusted each other enough to allow their opposition to raise a child as their own. Thus, a peace child.

Flashback to what the Lord told me during that morning walk:

“I’ve given you my peace, child, because I’ve given you my peace child.”

Much like the groups at war connected to the idea of a peace child, we live in the daily reality that God gave us His son, Jesus, as a peace child for our salvation.

I just, what even. It’s such good news!!!

As we enter into the post holiday grind, start a new year and a new decade, and potentially reflect on the past year and decade, I pray you keep this in mind.

We have peace, because He gave us his peace child. Therefore, whatever we are anxious about (and let’s be honest, there’s plenty to be anxious about) can be submitted to the peace brought by the birth of that child in a manger many years ago.

Belated Merry Christmas and welcome to 2020!