Steadfast describes you when you take the attitude of Isaiah, who later wrote, “But my work all seems so useless! I have spent my strength for nothing and to no purpose at all. You’re just not good enough to get His attention. Starting to get the picture! Steadfast describes the person who doesn’t focus on the darkness of the difficulty, the gloom of the circumstances, nor the discouragement of your feelings which say, “God doesn’t care about you. I often autograph books and add the words Paul wrote to the Philippians from a prison in Rome: “Being confident of this very thing, that He who has begun a good work in you will complete it until the day of Jesus Christ” (Philippians 1:6). That means we stand fast in the confidence that God is enough, that He is powerful enough, that He cares enough, and that He will take us through the storm.Īctually that same thought is found throughout the entire Bible. We have the confidence that no matter how chaotic the circumstances of our lives, God will take us through the storm. What Isaiah was telling us is that perfect peace is the reward of steadfast, unwavering trust in God. Synonyms are “rest your self upon,” or “sustain yourself.”Īh! A bit of light, like the rays of the sun shining through an open door, began to shine into my soul, and I got a new picture. The Hebrew word is camak, and it means “to lean upon” something or “to take hold” of something. Then I noticed that the NIV translates the verse, “You will keep in perfect peace him whose mind is steadfast, because he trusts in you.” “OK,” I asked myself, “What does that word really mean? Here’s what I discovered. Then you say, “Whoa! Peace comes through focusing on God.” OK, I memorized that a hundred years ago-or it seems that long ago–and I often quote it to myself, especially when life gets as jumbled as the agitator in a washing machine, and you are bothered by so many things that you really lose your focus and feel like settling a few scores the old way. For example, the King James text of Isaiah 26:3 says, “Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee: because he trusteth in thee” (Isaiah 26:3).
Have you ever had one of those times when all of a sudden something that you’ve read a thousand times jumps out at you, and you then see something that has been there all along and it just hadn’t grabbed you before? That’s part of the reason that you can study the Word of God for a lifetime and never exhaust the depth of the truth that is there. Sala | Series: Guidelines For Living | You will keep in perfect peace him whose mind is steadfast, because he trusts in you.
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