Tuesday Reading: Isaiah 26:3-4
Key Verse: Isaiah 26:4
4 Trust in The Lord forever; for in the LORD JEHOVAH is everlasting strength.
Devotion:
No matter how deep we sink in our own worries and mire that we mix we can always look up and know that God is our strength and know that with a surety that gives us an inner peace. We may not feel like we are at peace many times in our lives due to the constant bombardment of the world around us on our souls but that inner peace is a foundation that cannot be shaken. We may struggle to find it sometimes because we are lost in the world, but that does not mean that it is not there!
Perfect peace means exactly that. It is perfect because nothing can or ever will detract from that peace. It is a constant just like we think of time as being a constant in our lives. The word perfect may not be in the original Hebrew text in these verses but we know that it is; the reality of it makes it so. That inner peace cannot come from anyone other than God because He is the author of it and the keeper of it. Nothing else in our lives is as sure as God’s love, peace and mercy. Nothing is as sure as God. Yet so many people cannot see the wood from the trees because they are lost in the things that they find before they find God’s peace.
We are born with the knowledge that there is something better that we need to find in our lives. Whether we do find God’s perfect peace or whether we get lost before we reach His goal is based on the decisions that we make in our lives. If we want to find something then we have to start looking and not give up until we find it – if we give in to other things along the way then we will slow our progress to find that goal in the first place. We need to focus our minds on searching for God by starting in His Word and learning what He needs us to know first. Only then do we have the chance at listening to His instruction to find His perfect peace that He willingly gives to all who will listen. Be a listener today and seek God because He is already seeking you!
Points to Ponder:
How hard do you look for something when you lose it?
Are you looking for the peace your soul knows exists?
