16/01/2020
Looking to our feelings to steady our souls instead of Truth is dangerous ground.
Why? Because feelings are fragile props. Only Truth is solid, unchanging and stable through and through. The beliefs we hold should hold us up, even when life feels like it’s falling apart.
We aren’t just promised peace on the other side of eternity. Isaiah tells us how we can experience and walk in strength and peace today:
“You keep him in perfect peace
whose mind is stayed on you,
because he trusts in you.
Trust in the LORD forever,
for the LORD GOD is an everlasting rock” (Isaiah 26:3-4, ESV).
This doesn’t mean our circumstances will feel peaceful. It doesn’t mean all our relationship troubles and hardships suddenly get better. Nor does it mean the prayers we pray suddenly all get answered. But what it does mean is our mind can be steadied with Truth instead of overrun with thoughts of fear, anxiety and worst-case scenarios.
Hebrews 13:8 says, “Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever” (ESV). The same God who rescued David from Saul, who split the Red Sea so the children of Israel could safely pass through, and the One who promises strength to His people through Isaiah — He is the same God you can trust with your life.
God is always doing more than you know — working toward a good you’ll one day rejoice in.
-Lysa TerKeurst
How can you purposefully fix your eyes on Jesus this week — instead of fixating on your problems?
