Is.
26:3 You will keep in perfect peace all who trust in you, whose thoughts are
fixed on you!
This
is not a maybe promise! God say He WILL
keep in perfect peace all who trust in Him.
Perfect peace is the absolute knowledge that God is real in the
heart. It is knowing that we have held
nothing back from Him, that we have confessed all of our sins. It is knowing that God is in control and will
never fail to be with us or let us down.
It is knowing that the desire of the heart is that God’s will be done
and not our own. It is knowing that God
is able and putting all of our trust in Him.
It is knowing that God is eternally the same and can never change.
Perfect
peace comes to those who trust in the Lord with all their heart, mind and
soul. It happens when we cease to doubt
God, when we believe in His absolute goodness and holiness to the point where
we know that He always acts on our behalf out of love and for our good.
Perfect
peace comes to those who fix their thoughts on Him. There is so much to occupy our minds
with. We are constantly being bombarded
with things to think about. Since the
world is for now Satan’s playground, it stands to reason that much of what we
are exposed to is evil. It takes a
disciplined mind to not focus on evil. A
mind fixed on the Lord consistently and regularly feeds on godly things. There is much time spent in God’s Word and
prayer. There is time spent surrounded
by godly people. There is time spent
seeing the world through God’s eyes. We
train our minds to think of the world as a place of pain and not pleasure. A trained mind understands the lostness of the
world and how precious it is to not be lost anymore.
Perfect
peace is being able to rest in the knowledge that all is well with our
souls. It is keeping our souls pure
before God by confessing our sins and striving to live life by Christ’s
righteousness in us. It is a heart fully
surrendered to the lordship of Christ over us.
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