Perfect Peace

“You will keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on You because he trusts in You. Trust in the Lord forever for in Yah, the Lord is everlasting strength” – Isaiah 26:3-4

God made an amazing promise through Isaiah. “You will keep him in perfect peace” God promises that we can have perfect peace, and be kept in a place of perfect peace.

In the original Hebrew text the term “perfect peace” is actually Shalom Shalom. This shows how the Hebrew language repetition communicates intensity. It isn’t just Shalom, it’s Shalom Shalom, “perfect peace“. It is as if God wasn’t satisfied to give us one door of peace to walk through. He opened up the double doors of peace and said, “Shalom Shalom.” If one assurance of peace is not enough for us. He will follow it what a second and then put on top of those two the promise to keep us there

Some can have this peace, but it is fleeting and they are never kept there. Others can be kept in peace of the wicked, the peace of spiritual sleep and ultimate destruction. But there is a perfect peace that the Lotd will keep us in.

Who are the people who enjoy this peace? Isaiah tells us, “Whose mind is stayed on You.” This is the place of perfect peace and even the source of it. When we keep our minds focused on God, settled on, and established on the Lord Himself, then we can be kept in this perfect peace.

To be kept in this perfect peace, our minds must stay on Him. What sustains your mind? What is your mind established upon? Who does your mind lean on? To have perfect peace, your mind cannot occasionally come to the Lord, it has to stay on Him.

If our minds are focused on ourselves, or our problems, and the problems of other people in our lives, or anything else, we can not have perfect peace.

Paul said in Philippians 3:10,

“That I may know Him, and the power of His resurrection, and the fellowship of His sufferings, becoming conformed to His death.”

Satan loves our minds on anything except God and His love for us.

When we trust in the Lord, we keep our minds on Him. The battle for His trust begins in our minds. If we trust in the Lord, it shows in our actions, but it begins in our minds.

If the Lord calls us to rely on Him completely with our minds. He appeals to our minds with a rational reason why we should trust Him, because of His everlasting strength.