ace. "In the world ye shall have tribulation,
but be of good cheer, I have overcome the world."

How true that in the world we have tribulation. Are you in
tribulation? Are you in trouble? Are you in sorrow? Remember this is
our lot. Paul had tribulation, and others shared in grief. Nor shall
we be exempt from trial. But within, peace may reign undisturbed. If
sorrow is our lot, peace is our legacy. Jesus gives peace; and do you
know there is a good deal of difference between His peace and our
peace? Any one can disturb our peace, but they can't disturb His
peace. That is the kind of peace He has left us. Nothing can offend
those who trust in Christ.

NOT EASILY OFFENDED.

In the 119th Psalm and the 165th verse, we find "Great peace have they
who love Thy law; and nothing shall offend them." The study of God's
Word will secure peace. You take those Christians who are rooted and
grounded in the Word of God, and you find they have great peace; but
it is these who don't study their Bible, and don't know their Bible,
who are easily offended when some little trouble comes, or some little
persecution, and their peace is all disturbed; just a little breath of
opposition, and their peace is all gone.

Sometimes I am amazed to see how little it takes to drive all peace
and comfort from some people. Some slandering tongue will readily
blast it. But if we have the peace of God, the world can not take that
from us. It can not give it; it can not destroy it. We have to get it
from above the world; it is peace which Christ gives. "Great peace
have they which love Thy law, and nothing shall offend them." Christ
says "blessed is he, whosoever shall not be offended in Me." Now, if
you will notice, wherever there is a Bible-taught Christian, one who
has the Bible well marked, and daily feeds upon the Word by prayerful
meditation, he will not be easily offended.

Such are the people who are growing and working all the while. But it
is these people who never open their Bibles, these people who never
study the Scriptures, who become offended, and are wondering why they
are having such a hard time. They are the persons who tell you that
Christianity is not what it has been recommended to them; that they
have found it was not all that we claim it to be. The real trouble is,
they have not done as the Lord has told them to do. They have
neglected the Word of God. If they had been studying the Word of God,
they would not be in that con