What is peace?  Peace is something that we tend to run around chanting for, but I am not talking about that kind, I am talking about the inner kind.  Inner Peace is something that, if you ask someone, “Do you want peace?” The answer will most undoubtedly be a resounding, “Yes!”  There’s a problem to this easy question, though.

We don’t actually want peace.

We like to talk about it.  We like to wish for it.  We like to pray for it.  But we don’t actually want to have it.  We would rather have all the other complications and hang-ups that plague us in our lives.  We like to be confused and chaotic in our spiritual lives, wondering whether we are just getting by, or drowning in a sea of doubt, confusion, anger, and sin.

Karen Bean has convinced me to run a 5K sometime in the near future.  As mentioned before, I am not an endurance runner.  But I have told myself that I am GOING to run this race, and hopefully lose some weight and get back in shape while I am at it.   But I am not going to finish this race unless I begin working for it now.  If I were to take things in stride and not work for what I want, then when race day comes I will fall flat on my face in a fit of dehydration and hyperventilation.  We need to remind ourselves of this same fact: that we must work for what we want.  You want inner peace?  What are you doing to work for it?