Bible Promises – Peace

The power of the Bible, some would say, is in the stories. For me, it’s in the promises.

Lately I’ve been thinking a lot about the promise in Isaiah 26:3, which I was introduced to by a woman who had just emerged from a harrowing personal experience and found the verse helpful for getting her through. But you don’t have to be in trauma or great difficulty to take hold of the promise of this verse. It reads: “You will guard him and keep him in perfect and constant peace whose mind is stayed on You, because he commits himself to You, leans on You, and hopes confidently in You.”

Take a moment to consider what “perfect and constant peace” would mean for you. I’m not sure that there is anything I want that falls outside of that. If it’s perfect, it covers everything, and if it’s constant I never have to worry that it will suddenly be gone.

For such a prize as that, the price of admission described in the verse seems like a rather small price and a worthy challenge.