Peace of Jesus to rule my heart

Reading Colossians this morning and the latter part of chapter 2 going into chapter 3 is sobering and not heard often enough. As I was looking for an encouraging word to share, I took notice that the hard parts of scripture are hard to find as a thumbnail. 

Honestly, I really did not like the fire and brimstone messages when I was a youngster. Turn or burn!!! Heaven or hell!!! 

As I see my own plight and my need for Jesus, those messages of old seem forgotten in the church of today. Please don't mistake what I am saying. There are plenty of churches that are God fearing and  teach the whole gospel. Woe to me should I not understand the importance of receiving new life and putting to death the things of the sinful nature. Saved by Grace so there is no need for me to do anything more in the sense I can continue living a life indulging in the things of this word that are sin or cause me to sin is a fallacy. I need the peace of Jesus to rule in my heart. My desire is to see the body of Christ, who is considered His bride, to put away human thinking and to move together as one body, as we have been called.