That Peaceful Easy Feeling - John 16:33

  
“These things I have spoken to you, that in Me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation; but be of good cheer, I have overcome the world.” - John 16:33

How often I have watched the news and seen the worst that humanity has to offer us. Whether it’s ISIS beheading innocent Christians in the Middle East or just another local story about a cross being removed from its place in a county park because it offended someone. We will and we do have tribulations. How disheartening it can be when every where we turn, someone is out to get us simply because we believe in the one true God.
I have friends in whose company I can’t even bring up Jesus’s name! It’s not persecution I fear among them but their inconsiderateness for mentioning “a very controversial subject,” in their minds. So it is with the greatest joy that I am able to recall the words of Jesus when He says, “in Me you may have peace.”  In Jesus I have peace. “For whatever is born of God overcomes the world. And this is the victory that has overcome the world—our faith. Who is he who overcomes the world, but he who believes that Jesus is the Son of God?” - 1 John 5:4-5. Faith in our Savior brings us peace because we know with all certainty that He has overcome the world! All it takes is that we are born of God, children of God - “You are of God, little children, and have overcome them, because He who is in you is greater than he who is in the world.” - 1 John 4:4. They cannot hurt us in the end. The victory is ours because of who we are - children of God, born of God.  “But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.” - 1 Corinthians 15:57.
They can harangue us, accuse us, try us, and ultimately convict us, but of what? Our faith in Christ? Behold! There is the victory! We are convicted, not by men, but by our faith in Jesus Christ! What greater victory can we have than to be convicted by the holy name of Christ, and therein lies our peace. “Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us.” - Romans 8:37.
No matter what takes place in this Godless world we will always have the peace that Christ has given to us in Himself, accused, tried, convicted and crucified. We are to be of good cheer because in Him we overcome the world.