The inimitable Puritan writer Thomas Watson said, “If God be our God . . . He will give us peace in trouble. When there is a storm without, He will make music within. The world can create trouble in peace, but God can create peace in trouble.”1

The Prince of Preachers agreed. In one of his matchless sermons, delivered on Sunday, August 3, 1890, Charles Spurgeon, fifty-seven, who was celebrating his fortieth year as a Christian but who was ill and would be dead within two years, told his congregation if they had inner peace they would “dread no outward disturbance, and feel no inward storm—who does not desire such a state?”

His text that morning was Psalm 29:11: “The LORD blesses his people with peace.” Waxing eloquent, Spurgeon spoke of the thoughts that had come into his mind the previous evening while meditating on this text:

As I turned my text over last night, it seemed to me to be a very wonderful passage. . . . “The Lord will bless His people with peace.” We have had peace with God these forty years; yes, but we have a promise of peace for today. Suppose we should live another forty years, we shall still have the same promise—“The Lord will bless His people with peace.”

I should like an everlasting check from some millionaire, running thus: “So often as this check is presented at the bank, pay the bearer what he asks.” Few persons possessed of such a document would fail to put in an appearance at the bank. We should be regular visitors. Oh, children of God, we have such a promissory note in the text before you! The Lord hath endless, boundless peace within Himself, and when you have long enjoyed peace with Him you may go to Him again and say, “Lord, renew my peace. I am troubled, but Thou art unmoved. Bless me with peace.”

When you are rich . . . when you are poor. . . . When children are born to you . . . if the children die. . . . If you grow sick. . . . When you must go upstairs and lie down upon your last bed to rise no more, then, even then, the Lord will bless you with His ever-living peace; and when you wake up at the sound of the last trump, the Lord will still keep you in perfect peace. . . . The Lord will bless His people with peace.

Take this truth home to your heart, and live upon it, and you may dwell perpetually in the presence of the King.

Robert J. Morgan, Worry Less, Live More: God’s Prescription for a Better Life (Nashville: Thomas Nelson, 2017).

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