How to Find Peace in God, through God, and with God

Yvonne Morgan

4 months ago

The Peace We’re All Looking For

Have you ever noticed how life feels loud, heavy, uncertain, and rushed all the time? Peace feels elusive for many people. Many people chase peace through control, comfort, or perfect circumstances. Peace for the Christian is more than a feeling; we find it in the person of Jesus Christ.

I’m glad you joined me today on my blog as we look at three different layers of peace and how we can get each of them:

Peace in God.
Peace through God.
And peace with God.

Peace in God

I believe peace in God is the calm that comes from knowing the true nature of God, and it’s the inner peace that anchors our heart to Him. It’s not based on what’s happening around you. Instead, it’s rooted in God’s character: faithful, steady, present, unchanging. When we base our lives on the characteristics of God, we find a peace that goes beyond human understanding.

What does this kind of peace look like in everyday life? Peace in God in everyday life looks like an inner calm and steadfastness amid chaos. It’s a sense of being anchored in Christ by allowing God’s Spirit to produce love, joy, and self-control, even when life is difficult. Here are some specific ways:

Our thoughts settle even when our schedules don’t.
We feel held, even when we don’t feel strong.
We can breathe again, even when nothing has been “fixed” yet.

Practical ways to live this:

Start the day with surrender instead of stress.
Pray honestly: “God, I need Your peace more than I need answers.”
Replace spiraling thoughts with truth.

Peace through God

Peace through God is what happens when God steps into our situation and we witness His power at work. This kind of peace comes from His action, not our ability or actions. We discover this peace when we allow Christ to guide, strengthen, rescue, and carry us through all circumstances.

What does Peace through God look like in real life?

When we get through something we didn’t think we could survive.
Or feel strength that isn’t our own.
Doors opening, burdens lifting, or clarity coming at the right moment.

Practical ways to experience peace through God:

Ask God for help in the moment instead of waiting until we’re broken.
Trust His timing even when we don’t understand or want the delay.
Watching for His peace to show up as provisions, protections, endurance, and wisdom.

Peace with God

Peace with God is a spiritual peace that comes from a restored and deepened relationship with Him. This is the foundation for all other faith-based peace. We can’t have lasting peace in our soul when we become separated from the source of all peace. This matters because without peace with God, we end up living with guilt, shame, fear of not being enough or striving to earn love from things that won’t bring us peace with God.

The good news is that peace with God is a gift to us through our faith in Jesus Christ. We cannot earn it through our actions; it’s received by faith.

What it looks like when you have peace with God:

We stop striving and start resting.
Live from a place of acceptance and not trying to earn it.
And even when we mess up, we run to God instead of hiding.

Bringing It All Together: The Peace Journey

Peace with God is the foundation of all these types of peace. Without a restored relationship with Christ, we will never know peace.

Peace in God is the daily anchor that keeps us from being tossed by the storms of life. Without our anchor, we are at the mercy of the winds and the sea.

Peace through God is the sustaining strength that we see when God carries us forward through the chaos. God doesn’t just give peace; He is our peace. Peace isn’t a personality trait; it’s a promise from God, and it’s available to us today when we accept Christ.

2 Corinthians 12:9 (NIV): “But he said to me, My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness. Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may rest on me.”

John 14:27 (NIV); “Peace I leave with you; my peace I give you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled and do not be afraid.”