There is a peace that comes from ignorance, and there is a peace that comes from a knowing.
Peace has been called a pearl and rightly, for it is precious and smiles with soft, mild radiance bedecking the heart that wears it. It is, indeed, a pearl of great price—he that has it has more than riches. If his peace is, in very deed, the true pearl, he who wears it in his breast is one of the favored sons of God. (spurgeon)
A poor woman was the loving mother of an only son. He was very dear to her. He fell sick, indeed, he was sick unto death but the mother could not bear to think so. She scraped together the necessary fee for a physician and, oh, the peace of heart she had when the trusted man came downstairs and said to her, “Your son will recover. There is no grave cause to fear. Nurse him carefully and very soon he will be at his post again.” The mother was restful of heart, for she believed the doctor. Within a single day her son died and those hours of false peace were the wormwood and the gall of her affliction. It was a sad, sad pity to have raised her hopes for she cried, “Oh, if I had known that he was going to die, I should not then so bitterly have felt his loss! But I am grievously disappointed. How could the doctor tell me he would live?” The physician was either greatly mistaken, or else wished to soothe the mother’s manifest anguish. If the latter was the case, his untruthfulness was not wise. I cannot follow the same course. It is a pity to create a peace which is baseless. It is lamentable to me that anyone of you should be slumbering in peace when a great danger is near which will cause that peace to vanish as a dream when one awakes. Avoid that peace which will prove deceptive in the present and ruinous in the future—
Col 3 :15 Let the peace of God rule in your hearts
Phil 4:7 Peace that surpasses understanding
Ps. 119:165 Great peace have they which love thy law: and nothing shall offend them"
Rom. 5:1, 2 Peace with God
Ps 29:11 The Lord will give strength unto His people, the Lord will bless His people with peace
John 14: 27 Peace I leave with you, My peace I give to you: not as the world gives do I give you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.”
The photo to the right shows the monstrous eye of hurricane Isabel. If you've ever been inside the eye of a hurricane (or typhoon), then you know that the center of the storm is very calm. It is so calm, that people not familiar with such tropical storms often assume that the storm has passed. Many people have died because of this FALSE PEACE, or false serenity.
Sources of false peace:
1) lies - The man who finds fault with himself accepts all things cheerfully—misfortune, loss, disgrace, and any other kind of adversity. He believes that he is deserving of all these things and nothing can disturb him. No one could be more at peace than this man. There is also a false peace that deceives some (1 Thes. 5: 3)
Call what is sin good - Isa 5:20
2) ignorance - thoughtlessness
3) denial -AVOIDING CONFLICT AND CONTROVERSY TO HAVE FALSE PEACE WITHOUT TRUTH?? Jesus came to bring division Matthew 10:34-37 Am I therefore become your enemy, because I tell you the truth? Galatians 4:16
4) sin - Our own sensuality and the world can give us peace. Eph 4:22 The riches we have can be a source of great peace, and our downfall. For to be carnally minded is death," Paul wrote, "but to be spiritually minded is life and peace" (Rom. 8: 6)
5) n psychology, cognitive dissonance is the excessive mental stress and discomfort[1] experienced by an individual who holds two or more contradictory beliefs, ideas, or values at the same time. This stress and discomfort may also arise within an individual who holds a belief and performs a contradictory action or reaction.[2]A classic illustration of cognitive dissonance is expressed in the fable "The Fox and the Grapes" by Aesop (ca. 620–564 BCE). In
