How do you decide if it’s going to be a good day or a bad day? How does your heart make the call if you’re safe or out, complete or incomplete, winning or losing, being rewarded or punished? There is a verb used in Colossians 3:15 that is not found anywhere else in the New Testament. Most English Bibles translate the word as “rule,” and it actually means “to act as an umpire or 
to arbitrate.” So, what is it that is the umpire of your heart? What should it be?
Colossians 3:15 states, “And let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, to which also you were called in one body; and be thankful.” The peace that belongs only to Christians (Rom. 1:7) and that “surpasses all understanding” (Phil. 4:7) is to continually (present tense) be that which directs, umpires and makes decisions for your heart. This peace doesn’t just bubble to the surface every once in a while, but it is to be right at the heart of our lives and making the calls!
What’s ruling your heart? What’s the ump of your heart? Got peace? His peace?