Be at Peace as regards your Income, Not Ease

This post is to share wisdom with you on how to put your mind at rest as regards your financial income. The global economic crisis is at the door. Understanding the difference between peace and ease will help you go through what is bound to be a very challenging season that is now upon the world. (Adullam Advisor, October 2020)
Texts – please read the Bible passages as you read the post
Isaiah 32:9-14 – Rise up, you women who are at ease, hear my voice; you complacent daughters, give ear to my speech. In a year and some days you will be troubled, you complacent women; for the vintage will fail, the gathering will not come. Tremble, you women who are at ease; be troubled, you complacent ones; strip yourselves, make yourselves bare, and gird sackcloth on your waists. People shall mourn upon their breasts for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vine. On the land of my people will come up thorns and briers, yes, on all the happy homes in the joyous city; because the palaces will be forsaken, the bustling city will be deserted. (NKJV)
Isaiah 26:3 – You will keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on You, because he trusts in You. (NKJV)
John 14:27 – Peace I leave with you, My peace I give to you; not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid. (NKJV)
Key Points
Peace must not be confused with Ease. Peace is what the Lord Jesus gives to His people. Ease on the other hand is what the world mistakenly refers to as peace, that is, the absence of trouble. Peace is however not the absence of trouble; it is the presence of the Prince of Peace (Jesus Christ) in our lives and our focus on Him.
Financial challenges are an ever-constant experience in this world. They are like the storms that come from time to time leaving a trail of destruction behind. You protect yourself against them by ensuring the foundation of your income is rock and not sand. When your peace means the absence of trouble, your financial income has a faulty foundation and is built on sand that is easily shifted by the storms of economic adversity. However, when your peace is focus on the Prince of Peace, you would have built your financial income on a solid foundation of rock that cannot be shifted. The end of a financial income built on ease is destruction.
We must learn not to confuse tribulation with destruction. It is okay to have tribulation as regards your financial income, but it is not okay to be financially destroyed. When God allows us to go through tribulation, it is to develop faith in us so that we can overcome and not be destroyed. Please read Isaiah 43:1-2.
Jesus commands us to never let our hearts be troubled. It is an instruction, not an advise. This is the simple test you can do to know whether what is in your heart is Peace or Ease. If your heart is troubled because of challenges in your financial income, you have Ease and not Peace. As Christians we should seek peace and not ease. Ease being the absence of trouble is fickle and can be easily taken away by financial storms. It is only when you have peace that you can say ‘peace be still’ to your storms.
STOP looking at your financial troubles and its threat of destroying you and your family. Look rather on Jesus, the Prince of Peace. Stay in the place of prayer; in due season the Lord will arise and release faith in you to say: ‘peace be still’ to your storms. And then you move on to the next tribulation. Please read Acts 14:22.
The grace of the Lord be with us all. Amen