Perfect Peace
Perfect Peace Starts With You
Think back.
Do you remember a time in your life when you felt like you were in perfect peace?
For me, surprisingly, it was after our family accident.
As a family, we had suffered a great loss – the tragic, accidental death of our nine-year-old niece Susanna.
It wasn’t until fifteen years later that my husband and I traveled back to Jackson Hole to get some closure.
One of our visits during that return trip was to head up to Rendezvous Mountain – an incredibly peaceful place right there at the top.
We spent quite a bit of time up there, but the highlight was praying on that mountain to God and thanking Him for letting us experience His grace during a time of great sadness. As long as we stayed focused on God and His promises, we felt that perfect peace the Bible verse talks about.
In Isaiah 26:3, the prophet (and great man of God) speaks to the strength and peace that our Sovereign God can provide if we keep our focus on Him.
Everlasting Strength and Perfect Peace Can Be Yours
As Christians, we know that God is good.
We can trust Him to work the circumstances in our lives for the good, even when we don’t understand His plan.
On the other hand, trusting in the things of this world is a losing proposition.
Whatever we trust to the world for, it will be but for a moment: all we expect from it is confined within the limits of time. But what we trust in God for will last as long as we shall last. For in the Lord Jehovah-Jah, Jehovah, in Him who was, and is, and is to come, there is a rock of ages, a firm and lasting foundation for faith and hope to build upon; and the house built on that rock will stand in a storm. Those that trust in God shall not only find in Him, but receive from Him, everlasting strength, strength that will carry them to everlasting life, to that blessedness which is for ever; and therefore let them trust in Him for ever, and never cast away nor change their confidence. – Matthew Henry, Christian Minister and author.2
May you find comfort in this beautiful song, “Stayed on Him” from vocalist Terrian . . .
My sisters in Christ, You are His.
Don’t listen to the voice of fear, but trust God with all your heart and mind.
He is greater and stronger.
He is Jehovah-Nissi, our Banner
Through Him we have eternal victory and our salvation is secure.
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1Scripture quotation is from the New American Standard Bible (NASB) Copyright © 1960, 1962, 1963, 1968, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1977, 1995 by The Lockman Foundation.
2Matthew Henry quotation, “Complete Commentary on Isaiah 26” – “Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Whole Bible.”[1706.] Courtesy of Studylight.org., Isaiah 26:3-4, n.d. para. 6. Public Domain. Web. Accessed 11 January, 2023.
