Isaiah 9:6-7a

For to us a child is born, to us a son is given, and the government will be on his shoulders. And he will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace. Of the increase of his government and peace there will be no end.

Peace
If you want to find Peace at its absolute best
Go look on the face of the Christ Child at rest
Void of the cares of this life to be sure
No guilt for mischief or fear of failure
His Peace won’t depart as in others we find
Though He’ll carry the burdens for all of mankind
Even to death the Child's Peace will not end
Because He will trust in His God and not men

2 Corinthians 11:23-29

23 Are they ministers of Christ?—I speak as a fool—I am more: in labors more abundant, in stripes above measure, in prisons more frequently, in deaths often. 24 From the Jews five times I received forty stripes minus one. 25 Three times I was beaten with rods; once I was stoned; three times I was shipwrecked; a night and a day I have been in the deep; 26 in journeys often, in perils of waters, in perils of robbers, in perils of my own countrymen, in perils of the Gentiles, in perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness, in perils in the sea, in perils among false brethren; 27 in weariness and toil, in sleeplessness often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness— 28 besides the other things, what comes upon me daily: my deep concern for all the churches. 29 Who is weak, and I am not weak? Who is made to stumble, and I do not burn with indignation?

Love
I thought I was one
With love in his heart
With uplifting smiles
And words to impart
But then I was asked
Hard questions like these:
Child, where are your scars?
And why such smooth knees?

Jeremiah 17:7-8

7 "But blessed is the man who trusts in the LORD,whose confidence is in him. 8 He will be like a tree planted by the water that sends out its roots by the stream. It does not fear when heat comes; its leaves are always green. It has no worries in a year of drought and never fails to bear fruit."

Peace
There is Peace to be found
On the tree by the stream
Planted so firmly
Yet perfectly free
Its leaves are deep green
And its roots well secure
It bears peaceable fruit
So sweet yet so pure
It fears not the heat
Or the storm or the drought
It learned long ago
What that stream was about

Luke 15:20b

But when he was still a great way off, his father saw him and had compassion, and ran and fell on his neck and kissed him.

Joy
Where does our Father find His great Joy?
In the contrite heart of His prodigal boy!
Home from the sty with his hat in his hand
Ready to be not a boy but a man
But could this great Joy be in me or in you?
There is another such Joy for us - yes its true
It's not hard to find 'cause it always resides
In the man who obeys while his Father provides

Romans 5:5

Hope
Love can reveal that we really do care
But Love without Hope is compassioned despair
Faith will be with us in perilous times
But we need blessed Hope for Faith to abide
We find Hope at her best in the darkest of night
She’ll be drawing us forward and giving us light
But what shall I do when she’s missing again?
Why, go straight to the Savior,
Where Hope lives, my friend

And hope does not disappoint us, because God has poured out his love into our hearts by the Holy Spirit, whom he has given us.

1 Corinthians 3:21-22

21 Therefore let no one boast in men. For all things are yours: 22 whether Paul or Apollos or Cephas, or the world or life or death, or things present or things to come—all are yours.

When you are good at something that you think most people aren't, or when you have some knowledge or talent that you think most people don't know about, does it ever just drive you crazy to think that you have this hidden ability that nobody understands? That you are missing out on respect or recognition that is rightfully yours? That if you could just be understood, the world could see how valuable you truly are! I think this happens to most people at times.

But Paul says in this passge that this is a silly way to think. He says that all things are ours in Christ, so why feel such a drive to make people aware about some gift that you have? Why scream out about something that you have figured out that you think others must need to be enlightened by? These kind of motivations show that we don't yet really know who we are in Christ. It would be like the future heir to a billion dollar estate bragging about his new six figure job, it just doesn't make sense.