How wonderful it is to know we have peace with God.

Romans 5:1:
Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.

  Our peace with God is the result of a change in our relationship to God. Before being born again as a son of God, we were strangers from the covenants of promise, without God and without hope in the world (Ephesians 2:12). But now, being born again and justified through faith, we are turned from enemies into friends. We are no more strangers and foreigners. We are fellow-citizens with the saints and of the household of God (Ephesians 2:19).

  It is a very blessed change to be part of the family of God. The peace which we now have is very sweet. But our state of peacefulness does not always endure. Yes, we have peace with God (the war is over), but we do not always enjoy the peace of God.

  What is our right as sons is frequently abdicated due to circumstances. Loss of health or friends or other bothersome experiences of life all too frequently crowd our thinking and trouble our souls. The truth of our peace treaty with God is too often forgotten when the pressures of life intrude into our affairs. The pain of experience seems to prevail over the provision of the truth.

  However, Philippians speaks of maintaining and enjoying the quiet seas at any time.

Philippians 4:7:
And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Jesus Christ.

  Peace with God comes with sonship, but the peace of God is bestowed and enjoyed whenever we control our thinking to allow it to permeate our minds and hearts. We will enjoy peace when we enforce our peace treaty. What is ours by right becomes ours to enjoy and experience when we demand it. The temporary state of peacelessness can be reversed when we are careful to control out thinking. No wrath of the enemy, no betrayal of friend, no agitating circumstance can prevail over the peace of God if we ask it of Him. His holy calm can be realized as we filter our thinking according to His Word.
  
  This peace, God is willing to bestow upon any and all believers who ask. Since this peace passes all understanding, no brain can comprehend it, no intellect can understand it, no tongue can explain it. Nevertheless the promise of God stands sure. Enemies attack, friends leave, losses occur, but the peace of God which passeth all understanding, still remains. When called into action this peace of God keeps our hearts and minds in Christ Jesus.

  The peace of God can and does keep our hearts and minds protected from the raging of the world. Though we are in the world we are not of it. Though we are in the same world, with its allurements, bewilderments, and sapping influence as those without Christ, we enjoy quiet seas and sweet victory the world without him will never know.
The peace of God is the antidote for the fret and worry of life. The disappointments, the annoyances, and the manifold trials that the world serves up, are delightfully met and overcome by this peace of God that passes all understanding. Peace with God is ours. Let's enforce the peace treaty and enjoy the peace of God that passes all understanding.