How do we know when we are relying on something or someone other than the Lord for our peace of mind?
When we are preoccupied with how we feel about things and what we want or don’t want. That is to say, we are not talking to God about an interest we have or a plan or about a decision we we’re about to make. And our emotions generally give us away: we are irritated or abrasive or impatient or anxious or self-assertive or controlling or frustrated or fearful or hopeless or despairing, because things are not going our way.
Contrast that with this from Proverbs 3:17 — in reference to wisdom it reads, “Her ways are pleasant ways, and all her paths are peace.”
The presence or absence of peace within tells us whether we are on the path of God’s wisdom or not.
