Today's Daily Lesson comes from Luke chapter 10 verses 5 and 6:
5Whatever house you enter, first say, “Peace to this house!” 6And if anyone is there who shares in peace, your peace will rest on that person; but if not, it will return to you.
Your peace is a precious thing. It is a gift of God, and your gift to God's world. Your peace is God's gift to you, and you may give it and share it as freely as you wish. It is a gift to give and to receive. Five thousand people can be fed with just one loaf of peace.
But you should never let anyone take your peace from you. Your peace belongs to you. When you share it, you still have it. But taking is different from sharing. When somebody takes your peace from you, it evaporates. It's neither yours nor theirs. Like the stolen fruit in the Garden, it spoils when stolen.
So for your own sake and everybody else's, when somebody tries to take your peace away from you, don't let them have it. Your peace belongs to you. Share it with whom you wish; but don't let anybody steal it from you.
Your peace does belong to you; and when you decide that you need to take it back, and can take it back, you will discover that it will come back -- completely.
Ryon Price is Senior Pastor of Broadway Baptist Church in Fort Worth, Texas.
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