The Truth can give peace, and in this peace it can preserve a man amid all the troubles and turmoils of life. Not that he will never know trouble. A righteous man cannot be in this present evil world without knowing trouble: but there is a trouble that is OUTSIDE and a trouble that is INSIDE--as regards causes.
Christ's troubles were great, but they were all outside: inside, peace was his experience: "My peace" as he called it. So it will be with his brethren. They may know trouble among men, but in their own hearts towards God, peace reigns.
But even this peace is a thing of conditions; and it is the conditions
we have to watch. When have we the greatest peace? Is it not when we see
the most clearly and believe the most heartily the things declared to us
by the Truth? It is the vivid sense of those "things" that imparts
peace.--R. Roberts
