Peace Before You Know

READ: PROVERBS 3:5-6; PHILIPPIANS 4:4-8; 1 PETER 5:7 Can you remember a time when you had to wait for news that really mattered? Like when the results could mean you made the cut for the team. Or that you got into your favorite college. Or they could mean another surgery. Or cancer. How do you find peace in the waiting? That’s hard for just about everybody! You often hear people say, while awaiting their (potentially) difficult news, “I think I can handle what the news is. It’s just the waiting that is so hard!” One time, after undergoing many of these “waiting trials,” I had another wait in front of me. Friends were asking me, “Have you heard the results yet?” They were echoing my own questioning mind…which way would this go? Then I did something different than all the other times. I prayed a different prayer. I asked for “pre-peace.” I asked God for His peace before I knew the outcome. I prayed, Lord, you know all those times I endure those long days of waiting, un...