True Peace of Mind

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TRUE PEACE OF MIND
Genesis 4:7

"If you do well, will you not be accepted? And if you do not do well, sin is crouching at the door. Its desire is for you, but you must rule over it."

When a man desires a thing too much, he at once become ill at ease. A proud and avaricious man never rests, whereas, he who is poor and humble of heart lives in a world of peace. An unmortified man is quickly tempted and overcome in small, trifling evils, his spirit is weak, in a measure carnal and inclined to sensual things; he can hardly abstain from earthly desires. Hence it makes him sad to forego them; he is quick to anger if reproved. Yet if he satisfies his desires, remorse of conscience overwhelms him because he followed his passions and they did not lead to the peace he sought. True peace of heart, then, is found in resisting passions, not in satisfying them. There is no peace in the carnal man, in the man given to vain attractions, but there is peace in the fervent and spiritual man. - Thomas A. Kempis

JOY OVERCOMES TEMPTATION

"Do not be grieved, for the joy of the Lord is your strength."

Nehemiah 8:10

The man who possesses "the joy of the Lord," finds it his strength in another respect, that it fortifies him against temptation. What is there that he can be tempted with? He has more already than the world can offer him as a reward for treachery. He is already rich; who shall ensnare him with the wages of unrighteousness? He is already satisfied; who is he that can seduce him with pleasing baits? "Shall such a man as I flee?" … Such a man is, moreover, made strong to bear affliction; for all the sufferings put upon are but a few drops of bitterness cast into his cup of bliss, to give a deeper tone to the sweetness which absorbs them. - C. H. Spurgeon

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