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." (1)

While the world is progressing in wickedness, many feel the need to come close to God in prayer. The Lord says, "Call upon Me in the day of trouble; I will deliver you, and you shall glorify Me." (2) He invites us to come to Him with our perplexities and sorrows, and our need for His help. As soon as difficulties arise, we are to offer to Him our sincere, earnest petitions. By our prayers we give evidence of our strong confidence in God. The sense of our need leads us to pray earnestly, and our heavenly Father is moved by our supplications.

"The children of God are not left alone and defenseless. Prayer moves the arm of Omnipotence. Prayer has subdued kingdoms, wrought righteousness, obtained promises, stopped the mouths of lions, quenched the violence of fire." (3)

Those who take Christ at His word, and surrender their lives to His keeping, will find great peace even in the midst of turmoil. Their lives may seem a tangle, but as they commit themselves to the Master Shepherd, He will bring out the pattern of life and character that will be to His own glory. And that character which expresses the glory and character of Christ here will have entrance into the Paradise of God.

In the midst of turmoil the night before His crucifixion, Jesus said to His disciples, "Peace I leave with you. My peace I give to you; not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid." (4) David could say, "Though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for You are with me." (5)

With Him there is perfect peace, because with Him there is total knowledge and everlasting strength.

1. Isaiah 26:3, 4.
2. Psalm 50:15.
3. Christ's Object Lessons, p. 172.
4. John 14:27.
5. Psalm 23:4.