I am showing you a different side of this peace or SHALOM that Jesus said is mine and yours.
In Luke 4, Jesus quotes Isaiah 61 to tell us what He came to do for us here on earth.
“And when He stood up to read from the Scriptures, the book of the prophet Isaiah was handed to Him. And He opened it and found the place where it is written: “The Spirit of the Lord is upon Me, because He has anointed Me to preach the gospel to the poor. He has sent Me to proclaim release to the captives and recovery of sight to the blind, to set at liberty those who are oppressed, to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor.”
After He closed the book and gave it back to the officer, He sat down. The eyes of all in the synagogue were fixed on Him. Then He began to speak to them, saying, “Today this Scripture is fulfilled in your hearing.”
This “year of the Lord’s favor” that Isaiah prophesies about and that Jesus uses to show people why He came is the Jubilee year that we read about in Leviticus 25. Go and read a little for yourself about what it all entails.
Do you need such a Jubilee event in your life?
Do you need to hear that you are no longer a slave or need to be? You also don’t need to allow yourself to be treated like a slave?
Do you need to discover that Jesus came to pay all your debts in full?
Yes, perhaps you should discover that Jesus, through His Word and His Spirit, also wants to teach you a new path around money and possessions.
Yes, he wants to teach you, as Romans 13 says, “owe no one anything except to love them!”
Maybe he also needs to teach you what it means to start investing in a heavenly bank account! Yes, to invest in the coming of the Kingdom with your money and possessions, and not to fall for quasi-insurance and all the talk that banks and other financial systems tell you about all kinds of investments every day!
Hasn’t He promised you as His child that if you seek His Kingdom and consider it the most important thing in your life, there will be plenty of everything you and your loved ones need!
Or do you perhaps lack “peace” in the sense of liberation, like that demoniac from Gerasa, in Mark 5?
Do you realize that in light of what Jesus did for you on the cross, you can stop with that sin or sinful habits if you truly confess it as 1 John 1:9 says?
To then hear from God's own mouth: You are forgiven and cleansed from all unrighteousness! In Jesus, you are truly free!