Nothing compares to peace. True peace cannot be manufactured or bought. The peace of mind and heart that gives you physical and emotional rest, even in times of chaos, is priceless. If you take your greatest gift or your most significant accomplishment and subtract from it true peace, you don’t have much. True peace is more ‘in spite of’ and much less ‘because of’. In life where there is very little you can control, how do you pursue, find, and maintain lasting peace?

1. Keep your mind on Christ. Isaiah 26:3 – You will keep in perfect peace all who trust in you, all whose thoughts are fixed on you!
   
2. Keep your mind on things above. Colossians 3:2 – Think about the things of heaven, not the things of earth.
   
3. Renew your mind daily through daily prayer, Scripture reading, and worship. Romans 12:2 – Don’t copy the behavior and customs of this world, but let God transform you into a new person by changing the way you think. Then you will learn to know God’s will for you, which is good and pleasing and perfect.

Christ-centeredness produces true peace. There is no other way to obtain it.