Peace Beyond Understanding by John Norton Loughborough

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Jun 22, 1915

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 42, No. 25.

Peace Beyond Understanding

By John Norton Loughborough

A PRECIOUS promise too often unappreciated: “Be careful for nothing [Don't worry about to-morrow]; but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God. And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.” Phil. 4:6, 7.

“Yes,” says unbelief; “but I tried that, and found myself perplexed. The thing did not come out as I expected. Does it not say, in the same chapter, ‘God shall supply all your wants’? There were blessings I wanted, and I did not get them.”

Perhaps you refer to verse 19. It does not say “wants,” but, “My God shall supply all your need according to His riches in glory by Christ Jesus.”

Perhaps the Lord saw that what you wanted was not good for you at that time, and that you needed a little test of your faith that He would do all things well if you would only let Him. Instead, you failed even to hold fast to the promise you had professed to venture on.

No wonder at a disappointment in such a case! J. N. LOUGHBOROUGH.