Five truths about receiving the peace that Christ promised.
Today I will speak on what I have learned about the miracle of finding personal peace, whatever our circumstances. The Savior knows that all of Heavenly Father’s children yearn for peace, and He said that He could give it to us. You remember the words of Jesus Christ recorded in the book of John: “Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.”
If a man love me, he will keep my words: and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him.
As I have tried to more diligently live and act in a Christlike manner with Isaac I have found that peace.
I have learned at least five truths from that teaching of the Savior.
- The gift of peace is given after we have the faith to keep His commandments.
- The Holy Ghost will come and abide with us.
- The Savior promises that as we keep our covenants, we can feel the love of the Father and the Son for each other and for us.
- Keeping the Lord’s commandments requires more than obedience. We are to love God with all our heart, might, mind, and soul.
- Those who do not love Him do not keep His commandments. And so they will not have the gift of peace in this life and in the world to come.
- It is clear that the Lord loved us enough to pay the price of our sins so that we can—through our faith in Him and our repentance, through the effects of His Atonement—have the gift of the peace that “passeth all understanding,” in this life and with Him eternally.
There is an enemy of your soul who does not want you and those you love to find peace. He cannot enjoy it. He works to prevent you from even wanting to find the peace the Savior and our Heavenly Father desire you to have.
Yet there is reason for optimism: it is that the Light of Christ is placed in every newborn child. With that universal gift comes a sense of what is right, a desire to love and be loved. There is an inborn sense of justice and truth in every child of God as he or she comes into mortality.
Our optimism for personal peace for those children lies in the people who care for them. If those who rear them and serve them have worked to receive the gift of peace from the Savior, they will, by personal example and effort, encourage the faith of the child to qualify for the supernal gift of peace.
That is what the scripture promises: “Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.” It will require the one charged with the child’s care and nurturing to be worthy of the gift of peace.
When the caregivers fail—as they will at times—they can repent and the Lord can make things right if the children choose not to reject His offering.
I bear my sure witness the Savior lives and that He leads this Church. I have felt His love in my life and His love and concern for all of Heavenly Father’s children. The Savior’s invitation to come to Him is an offer of peace.
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