Psalm 119:165

Psalm 119:165 “Great peace have they who love Your laws, and nothing can make them stumble.”
 

Those who love His laws know they are following principals that cannot fail, no matter what people may do to them. “You will keep in perfect peace him whose mind is steadfast, because he trusts in You” Isaiah 26:3. We stumble when we are standing on something that is unstable.
 

The one who stands on the law of God will never stumble because nothing could be more stable. When our mind is steadfast, when it is fixed on God, we live in perfect peace. The apostle Paul lived in this same confidence. “Who shall separate is from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword?” Romans 8:35. It’s not that loving God’s law will keep you from trouble, it’s that trouble will no longer cause you to stumble in your walk with God because of the peace that comes through loving God’s law.         
 

Colossians 3:15 says, “Let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts.” When Paul says, “Let the peace of Christ rule,” he is teaching something very important. The word “let” means it will happen if we don’t prevent it. In Isaiah, Jesus is called The Prince of Peace, and when He is in our hearts, there is supposed to be “peace that passes all understanding.” In fact, peace is the norm for the believer – but we can prevent it is we are not careful. Peace will happen naturally when we love the law of God.
 

Anything we love, we Long to be with. Do we long to study (or read) the law of God? Do we diligently search the Scriptures to find His teachings? If we don’t do these things, we prevent the peace of God from ruling our hearts. Peace is natural for those who live the normal Christian life.
 

Now let me encourage you to take some time to meditate on this verse, as you do; consider those practices you have which promote the peace of God in your heart.  Continued