"You will keep in perfect peace those whose minds are steadfast because they trust in you" (Isaiah 26:3, NIV).
To say that knowing Jesus is knowing peace, and with no Jesus, you get no peace. But the devil always has his counterfeit peace with just enough truth to lure them into his lies and deception, inoculating them from the real thing, for example, secularists are intellectually fulfilled by adhering to evolution to explain reality. He offers the world faux peace through idolatry, crutches, the supernatural, drugs, and in many forms. Putting anything where God should be in one's priorities is idolatry--a time-consuming habit, hobby, or pastime.
Christians can only know peace when they give Christ first place in their lives. He is called the Prince of Peace for a reason! He paid the price to set us free from our guilt and confusion brought on by sin. And only by His truth can we be set free from the lies of the enemy. He is still in the resurrection business and can transform our lives into something beautiful to His glory. Ephesians 2:14 says He is our peace!
One of the Jehovah texts is Judges 6:24, which calls Jesus "the LORD is our peace," or Yahweh Shalom in Hebrew. God's peace is manifold and multi-dimensional in the spiritual realms transcending our comprehension. We are given peace with God, with ourselves, and with each other, and the ability to bring peace to the land by humbling ourselves in repentance to Him, and even being set free from our bondage and slavery to sin.
One of the Jehovah texts is Judges 6:24, which calls Jesus "the LORD is our peace," or Yahweh Shalom in Hebrew. God's peace is manifold and multi-dimensional in the spiritual realms transcending our comprehension. We are given peace with God, with ourselves, and with each other, and the ability to bring peace to the land by humbling ourselves in repentance to Him, and even being set free from our bondage and slavery to sin.
We are also given the ability to share, communicate, and bring peace to others as Christ's "peacemakers," and we are lights to the world of what real peace is. We experience this peace in the Lord and want to pass it on! But it must start with a decision to call upon the Lord as our peace! We must look to God, not ourselves and we will be saved, keeping our eyes focused on Him and not the obstacles. Without Jesus, in our lives, we head towards chaos not knowing where we are going, and cannot find God or any real lasting peace.
Everyone has a God or god and if not the real thing--Jesus--there is some idol in the life filling the void. So-called faux Gods are only the substitute that the devil offers to lure us away from the real thing! People mistakenly believe that if something works, it's true. The test of an idea is not whether it's true, but whether it works just considering the consequences (this is pragmatism): because it works is no guarantee it's true (e.g., TM, hypnotism, astrology, meditation, channeling, and yoga).
Everyone has a God or god and if not the real thing--Jesus--there is some idol in the life filling the void. So-called faux Gods are only the substitute that the devil offers to lure us away from the real thing! People mistakenly believe that if something works, it's true. The test of an idea is not whether it's true, but whether it works just considering the consequences (this is pragmatism): because it works is no guarantee it's true (e.g., TM, hypnotism, astrology, meditation, channeling, and yoga).
That's why it's so important to seek the truth and to seek the Lord, not peace per se. Many are really looking for the benefits, not the Benefactor, and are content with the things the devil offers the world, which will diminish one's appetite for the spiritual things of God. Soli Deo Gloria!