Living in Harmony

Cooperation

The world basically and fundamentally is constituted on the basis of harmony. Everything works in co-operation with something else.

Preston Bradley

Rom 8:28-29
And we know that God causes all things to work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to His purpose. For those whom He foreknew, He also predestined to become conformed to the image of His Son, so that He would be the firstborn among many brethren; NASU

What is peace, and what is harmony? Is it having everything you want and not suffering the things that you don’t want. Is it everything going right for you, and nothing falling out of place in your life? Doug Floyd said this of Harmony, “You don't get harmony when everybody sings the same note.” Actually if that is the kind of atmosphere that you have around you, you are living a pretty closed and selfish life.

When Paul writes that “all things” work together, he is all inclusive. Everything in God’s creation works in harmony for us. The good and the bad, and a lot of us get into trouble in the area of determining what is good or bad for us. The whole of creation has been subjected into futility Paul says in vs. 20 of this same chapter, so self designed lifestyles can get pretty futile because they are not for God’s purpose, but for our own.

Notice the conditions for things to work for good in our lives that are named in vs. 28, those things are only working together for those that, no. 1, “Love God.” So that is the first thing that can bring peace to our lives regardless of our circumstances is that we have determined to love Him no matter what is going on around us, good or bad, happy or sad. We have decided to trust God fully, no matter what the world or anyone else says of our circumstances, for they really don’t know what God has “predestined” for us anyway.

The second condition that Paul mentions is the fact that we have recognized God’s calling on our lives and we are living our lives for our Lord. He is “transforming” us not to conform us to the image that the god of this world wants to make us into, but that we are being conformed into the image of God’s Son, we are being made into the perfect image of Jesus daily.

Now when you are in this process, you can find peace. Why, it is because your peace does not exist in a person or place or thing in this world, your peace lies in the fact that you…are in “His” Will! ...God Bless.

Pastor William