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PERFECT PEACE

Are you sick and tired of striving to create peace and stability in your life? I have news for you. It was never about your striving in the first place.

Peace isn’t simply about resolving the surface-level responses to the pain in your life. It’s about re-aiming the affections of your heart to King Jesus.

As Isaiah 26:3 declares:

You keep him in perfect peace

Whose mind is stayed on you,

Because he trusts in you.

When our minds are “stayed” on Him, our mindsets—our total way of looking at things—are steady and undeviating, fixed on the Lord, and the result is perfect peace. Perfect peace, as prescribed by Scripture, offers holistic health to our innermost beings: our spirits and souls. This will affect our physical health too.

This good word is for you. Jesus said, “Peace I leave with you; my peace I give you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled and do not be afraid” (John 14:27). Jesus’s legacy to us is peace!

And what peace it is!

Paul said, “The peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus” (Philippians 4:7). In other words, peace will guard our whole inner beings like a military operative, ready to defend and protect without flinching. I’ve heard it said that we’ll receive the peace that surpasses understanding only when we give up our right to un­derstand. No amount of human intellect or reason can produce this peace.

Bring your loving Savior your whole life today. Lay every fear, doubt, disap­pointment, and insecurity at His feet. Rip off the mask. Throw off your outer garment, and receive today a robe of righteousness and a double portion instead of your shame, as the Word says in Isaiah 61:7 and 10.

To conclude these devotionals, I’ve got some more powerful things to reveal to you from Isaiah 61 tomorrow.

Where is your attention typically directed? What changes can you make so that you keep your mind fixed on Jesus?