Be At Peace with God

July 30th, 2025

2 Peter 3:13-18.

Teaching a child how to float in the water can be frustrating. In order to float, children have to surrender their bodies to the water and trust that those teaching them will not let them sink. The instructors will hold the children, then slowly let go until each child is floating on their own. Children need to learn to trust the instructor not to let them go under the water.

Verse 14 challenges us to be at peace with God. This is a call to place our trust in God and God’s plans for our lives. Often, we are like the child, not trusting that God will catch us. We will start to trust God, then life will get difficult, and we begin to feel that we are sinking, causing us to panic.

God calls us to surrender to Him. We are to fully trust that even in the hard times, God knows what He is doing and will not allow us to drown. Part of the Christian life is learning to find the peace in the floating, knowing that God is right there to catch us.

Author: Stephanie Malcolm