Today I will practice keeping my mind “stayed on you.” God loves to give us the perfect verse from his life-giving Word at the perfect time. After the death of his beloved wife, for instance, Pat opened his Bible and read of a God who promised peace in the midst of turmoil and joy in the deepest sorrow. At first Pat’s hopelessness made him feel as if he were losing his mind, and he asked God to hold on to him. But as he kept his mind on God’s Word and on the promises he read there, peace began to edge out despair. He read, “You will keep him in perfect peace, / Whose mind is stayed on You” (Isaiah 26:3). Pat asked God to strip him of the lies and half-truths Satan loves to whisper in our ears so that his mind would be focused on the one true God. Perfect peace is translated from the Hebrew shalom shalom, which means “fulfillment, abundance, well-being, security.” The phrase whose mind is stayed on You comes from two Hebrew words: the first meaning “will, imagination”; the second, “dependent, supported, firm.” When our wills and imaginations are dependent on God, when we choose to turn our thoughts to him, we learn the simple truth that God is enough. We find out, as Isaiah wrote, that “in the Lord . . . is everlasting strength” (26:4), and in God’s strength we discover fulfillment and security.
Posted on: Sun, 28 Jul 2013 00:59:40 +0000
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