The Right Pursuits 2

Isaiah 26:3 KJV

Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee: because he trusteth in thee.

Very Key lessons in the extract before us today. Firstly, there's peace that is perfect and it is from God. A lot of adverts, promos and TV jingles celebrate possessions and properties as the sources of peace. They make it look like the more you have and hold, the happier you will be. The world pursues these things and obtains them, yet we are not happier or better. We have only shifted our focus away from the Creator to the created things. No wonder our generation is referred to as the disconnected generation. We have relegated God to the secondary position in our lives and we keep wondering why things have become so bad. The answers lie in this verse.

Secondly, this peace is for those whose minds are stayed on God, the giver of the peace, not on the gifts that come from God. Many of us are seeking God for what we can get, and as soon as we get those things, we move on. We forget that it is only by staying with God that we can get the permanent blessings that come from being in his presence. You can't float in and out of God as you please or as circumstances dictate; God will not entrust his blessings into the hands of a man he cannot predict. If you are double-minded, unsure of where you stand or on whose side you are on, then it will be difficult to obtain anything from God.

Furthermore, the blessings come when you trust in God. The sights around us are dazzling; the craze for more things is fighting for attention; the desire to be better than others is strong, but the grace of God that can supply all your needs and even more than you can imagine is available. Remember, no demand on earth, no matter how large, can exhaust the resources of heaven. Total dependence and fixed trust in God are the keys. His time of favour is here.