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  SERENITY IN CHRIST
  by Mary Wilder Tileston
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Summary: Serenity is found in Christ, who brings peace and harmony to
those who receive Him, making their lives a calm and peaceful reflection
of His glory.

Topics: "Inner Peace", "Spiritual Harmony"
Scripture References: Psalm 119:35, John 14:27

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Mary Wilder Tileston preaches about finding harmony and peace through
Christ, emphasizing that receiving Him leads to a life of equanimity,
dignity, and serenity. When the soul is at peace with itself, it becomes
an instrument in tune, playing heavenly music in thoughts and
experiencing bliss. This inner harmony allows the soul to face
calamities and pains with joy, transforming challenges into
opportunities for love and blessings.

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Make me to go in the path of Thy commandments, for therein do I delight.

--PSALMS 119:35

Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world
giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it
be afraid.

--JOHN 14:27

THEN may Thy glorious, perfect will

Be evermore fulfilled in me,

And make my life an answering chord

Of glad, responsive harmony.

--JEAN SOPHIA PIGOTT

CHRIST is the embodied harmony of God, and he that receives Him settles
into harmony with Him, "My peace I give unto you," are the Saviour's
words; and this peace of Christ is the equanimity, dignity, firmness,
serenity, which made His outwardly-afflicted life appear to flow in a
calmness so sublime. The soul is such a nature that, no sooner is it set
in peace with itself, than it becomes an instrument in tune, a living
instrument, discoursing heavenly music in its thoughts, and chanting
melodies of bliss, even in its dreams. We may even say, that when a soul
is in this harmony, no fires of calamity, no pains of outward torment
can for one moment break the sovereign spell of its joy. It will turn
the fires to freshening gales, and the pains to sweet instigations of
love and blessing.

--HORACE BUSHNELL

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Source: https://sermonindex.net/speakers/mary-wilder-tileston/serenity-in-christ/
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