![]() Though we live different lives with varying jobs, family structures, and depths of faith, the serenity we envision is all the same. So if we attain this serenity in our lives, what would that look like? What Does a Life with Serenity Look Like? Godly peace is the ideal serenity that we imagine. ![]() God is good and perfect always, and His love for us endures forever ( Psalm 118:29). Worldly peace is found in the world through items that decay and human relationships that fade away. We can bear any and everything because we have God’s help.Īnother distinction is that godly peace comes from…God. We can see the problems around us, but the weight they once carried is suddenly light. This is also why godly peace is not a distraction. We can find serenity even in the face of adversity, like when Paul wrote with joy and faithfulness from a prison cell in Rome. Why? Godly peace, or serenity, gives us all the benefits of worldly peace, plus some, and none of the cons. What Scripture helps us understand in this verse from the Book of John is that the peace we find in God is greater than the world. In these descriptions, an important distinction is made. The Bible talks a great deal about peace and how to achieve it. ![]() However, the idea of serenity is expressed, and we find that through another word, peace. The word serenity does not appear in most English translations of Scripture today. Don’t let your heart be troubled or fearful.” ( John 14:27) Serenity sounds great, perfect even, but is serenity possible or just a figment of human imagination?Īccording to Scripture, serenity is indeed real, but biblical serenity may be a bit different than how we understand the word. Our relationships are running smoothly, along with work, and we feel an unbridled connection to God. When serenity is found in our lives, the same becomes true about us. There are no worries, no concerns, no troubles. Everything looks well, and in fact, everything is well. If serenity were illustrated through a picture you would witness a portrait of a smiling family or a landscape of undisturbed snow. A good word to describe this tranquil and ideal state of being is serenity. If only we could just get to that state of peace and satisfaction. But we always return back to a state of wanting. We labor and toil in an effort to fulfill this want. ![]() Per our human nature, there’s always a want that we wish to fulfill, much like our daily hunger and thirst. Now all was blasted instead of that serenity of conscience which allowed me to look back upon the past with self-satisfaction, and from thence to gather promise of new hopes, I was seized by remorse and the sense of guilt, which hurried me away to a hell of intense tortures such as no language can describe.Have you ever thought, “If I just had _ I would be okay”? Fill in the blank with money, a spouse, a new job, whatever. Perry's coming in soon after dinner, with a disengaged hour to give her father, she lost no time in hurrying into the shrubbery. She longed for the serenity they might gradually introduce and on Mr. (Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)īut I shall not scruple to assert, that the serenity of your sister's countenance and air was such as might have given the most acute observer a conviction that, however amiable her temper, her heart was not likely to be easily touched. No serious quarrel had ever vexed the serenity of the party and, now that each had sixteen hundred dollars to show for a short summer's work, there reigned the well-fed, contented spirit of prosperity. She looked suspiciously at her sister Maria's countenance was to decide it: if she were vexed and alarmed-but Maria looked all serenity and satisfaction, and Julia well knew that on this ground Maria could not be happy but at her expense. He does not care for that: when my time came to die, he would resign me, in all serenity and sanctity, to the God who gave me. (The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)īy and by Beth said, with recovered serenity, "You'll tell them this when we go home?" They were grave, it is true, and thoughtful, but of an invincible serenity. There was a serenity, a tranquillity, a calm sunset air about him, which quite affected me. Allen, with perfect serenity, “it is very uncomfortable indeed.”
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