READING: Isaiah 23-27
Life can be chaotic at times. The rising sun brings forth a new day with hope, and then things happen. The car doesn’t start. The kids are sick. You get a “pink slip” at work. A loved one unexpectedly dies. Life just hurts sometimes — and the world doesn’t always know what to do with that kind of pain. Some folks cover their pain in addictions, and others simply become bitter and angry. Still others try to find some kind of peace and understanding, but they do so on their own without a relationship with God. None of these approaches ever brings real peace.
As followers of God, though, we have these words: “You will keep in perfect peace those whose minds are steadfast, because they trust in you. Trust in the Lord forever, for the Lord, the Lord himself, is the Rock eternal” (Isa 26:3-4). God is the ultimate source of our peace — a peace that is not necessarily the absence of conflict, but is always the sweet rest we find in Him when we have a relationship with Him. It’s a peace that we can’t find apart from Him and a peace that the world can’t understand. He is the everlasting Rock — stable, secure, strong, dependable — in whom we can put our trust.
Genuine trust means that we walk in the way of God’s laws, crying out that His “name and renown are the desire of our hearts” (Isa 26:8). May God let it be that we so follow and trust Him that we can echo these words of Isaiah: “My soul yearns for you in the night; in the morning my spirit longs for you” (Isa 26:9).
ACTION STEPS:
- If your life is a bit crazy today, ask God to grant you His peace. Trust Him in the chaos.
- Even if you wonder if God is hearing your prayers, let your soul long for Him today.
PRAYER: “God, grant me grace to trust You fully today. Be my Rock when all else seems to be falling apart.”
TOMORROW’S READING: Isaiah 28-30
