You’ll hold in excellent and fixed peace the one whose thoughts is steadfast [that is, committed and focused on You—in both inclination and character], as a result of he trusts and takes refuge in You [with hope and confident expectation].” 📖 Isaiah 26.3 AMP
In Black tradition, it’s a typical type of expression to repeat an adjective as a type of emphasis. Them: How chilly was it? You: Chilly chilly.
On this verse, the phrase, “excellent and fixed peace,” comes from the Hebrew translation, shalowm shalowm (a double repeating of the Hebrew phrase for peace, שָׁלוֹם). The literal translation from Hebrew thus seems to be “peace peace” — a Hebrew idiom denoting emphasis.
What sort of peace is the prophet Isaiah promising from God? Peace peace! It’s a peace that solely God can provide and expects us to have as a result of He gave it, and we want it. It’s deep peace, a real peace. This shalowm peace is a peace not from the absence of chaos or troubling circumstances, it’s the peace that comes from God’s presence with us in it, and in each state of affairs.
The world is desperately on the lookout for peace in the entire fallacious locations. It’s why we self-medicate with the entire fallacious issues that may’t fill or fulfill us. However I’m studying that it’s additionally a peace that we solely get when Jesus is the middle of our life.
Once we transfer ourselves out of the way in which, our agendas, our controlling, our satisfaction, our fears — all of us. When Jesus is the middle and precedence of our lives, then we will totally entry the peace that God guarantees.
Peace isn’t the absence of chaos. Peace is God’s presence with us.
An excellent sensible software of that is to easily invite God into your day, into your circumstance, and even into your mess. God by no means guarantees that we gained’t have troubles. In truth, He tells us the other in that we’ll have troubles (John 16.33). However the recreation changer is that He guarantees to be with us (Hebrews 13.5, Isaiah 41.10, Matthew 28.20).
Peace I go away with you; My [perfect] peace I give to you; not because the world offers do I give to you. Don’t let your coronary heart be concerned, nor let it’s afraid. [Let My perfect peace calm you in every circumstance and give you courage and strength for every challenge.] 📖 John 14.27
