1.  Peace is often associated with quietness and rest. There is a rest for the soul that rest. 

2.  One of the most basic realities in our lives is other persons. We inter-act and find our peace disturbed by broken relationships or others disapproval. The greatest person we need approval from is God himself. We need God’s approval to quieten our minds and put us at rest. This only comes to us as we find God’s forgiveness. Only the Lord Jesus’ death on the cross is accepted by God as the basis of the removal of our guilt. We must trust in the Savior to find his forgiveness. When we do we find the verse so true. Therefore being justified by faith we have peace with God, through our Lord Jesus Christ. Romans 5:1.
 
3.  Out of this peace flows joy. Imagine what joy the paralytic had when the Lord Jesus said to him, “My son your sins are forgiven you. Rise up and walk.”
 
4.  Romans 15:13 combines faith, peace, and joy as interrelated in this wonderful benediction. “May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing.”
 
5.  To have no purpose or fulfillment is another way in which we may lack peace, quietness in our soul, and rest. The OT word peace—shalom--actually means fulfillment, wholeness, and completeness. Only God can give this sense of satisfaction in the soul. Only a relationship with Him can fill the need that we have of knowing and loving and being loved by our Maker. To know God as our Father is to be embraced by God because of the forgiveness that Christ has given us as believers. Out of this sense of finding the ultimate purpose in life—knowing God—there arises peace.
  
6.  Our peace can also be greatly disturbed by worry and fear. Trust in God’s sovereign control and Fatherly love is the only way to quiten our heart. “Fear not I will help you” (Isaiah 41:13) is God’s peace-restoring word to his worried, discouraged, fearful child. 
 
7.  We are often surprised at our wrong responses to our daily circumstances and to the people we love or are acquainted with. We may respond in anger, coldness, harshness, insensitivity, or cynicism. We are ashamed of ourselves and find our peace is broken. The healing direction that God’s word gives us here is to ask for that person’s forgiveness and to ask for God’s forgiveness. One of the verses we are sure to need every day of our lives is 1 John 1:9, “If we confess our sins He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.”
 
8.  To live in God’s peace daily is the most blessed life there is. Go and enjoy it in God’s strength and mercy.