December 6, 2024
Isaiah 26:3
You keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on you, because he trusts in you.
It seems that peace is a short lived experience in life. Each day, we are faced with events and circumstances that contradict the notion that everything is right, all is well. Don't you find that peace is here one moment and gone the next? Peace feels neither perfect nor long lasting.
How, then, can we ever have perfect peace?
To understand what the Prophet Isaiah is saying in 26:3, you must go back to chapter 25, verses 8 and 9: “He will swallow up death forever; and the Lord God will wipe away tears from all faces, and the reproach of his people he will take away from all the earth, for the Lord has spoken It will be said on that day, “Behold, this is our God; we have waited for him, that he might save us” (Isa. 25:8-9).
We need to notice that the perfect peace Isaiah is talking about comes from outside of us. It comes from hearing the promise that God has swallowed up death, taken away all our sins, and saved us. It is a "gospel peace". It is a grace gift given to us.
This peace does not hide itself when life is hard
This peace does not hide itself when temptation wins.
This peace has promised never to leave or forsake you.
This peace is a person.
This peace was born in Bethlehem.
This peace is Jesus Christ, the perfect one, and your perfect peace.
LET US PRAY
thank you for the peace that comes only from the work
of your Son and help me to trust in all that you have
promised me in him. Amen
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