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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