The Drinkable Kind of Peace

"...'Peace, peace to the far and to the near,' says the Lord, 'and I will heal him.'" Isaiah 57:19

A line from a famous poem, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, immediately kept going through my head after reading this verse: "Water, water every where, nor any drop to drink."

Drinking water and peace...

I think a lot of people ask God for peace. But they never truly experience it. That's because they are in a spiritual prison. God's peace is just within grasp, and yet, every drop is unattainable to them.

You can ask God for all the peace you want, but unless you are free, then it's like being stuck in an ocean of salt water, dying of thirst.

From this verse, I get the impression that the peace to us was a command on God's behalf. And there's more! God will heal us.

I think originally, God was supposed to give us the peace, then heal our hearts, and free us from the bondage that keeps destroying our peace. Because once the Great Physician heals the spiritual wound, then peace is real. Not fleeting.

It's a matter of us allowing God to heal us, so that we may drink of His never-ending peace.

---Joy