While the peace of God will guard our hearts and minds, we also have a role to play in guarding and nurturing our minds. We need to be careful what we focus on. So we should focus and ponder on what is honourable, pure, just, lovely, commendable, excellent and worthy of praise. If we focus on the negative all the time we will at best become depressed, at worst it will pollute our minds. If instead we focus on these good things it will help to build us up and motivate us.
And we need to practice the good as well as just think about it. All this will help us to know the peace of God. So we are not passive in receiving the peace of God, but active. However, we should not try and work out how the peace of God will come, just believe that it will.
We should focus on "what does God want me to do". Not "how do I get over this problem". What God wants us to do will sometimes be directly related to the problem, at other times it will have nothing to do with the problem, but if we get on and do it we will find that God solves the problem anyway.
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