Daily devotion with Melville Why do we need peace and what robs us of peace? Challenges cause anxiety and distress in our lives, but God wants us to live in a state of being where our mind, feelings and behaviour are at peace. Phil 4:6-7 tells us that God has our back and that He restores our peace, and Colossians 3:15 says that we need to allow God’s peace to guide us.