Perfect Peace

UV 1062/10,000 Perfect Peace

LORD, thou wilt ordain peace for us: for thou also hast wrought all our works in us.

Isaiah 26 v 12

The Lord will ordain or organize, arrange and anoint us with abundant and overflowing peace. He is the cause and source of our peace, our blessings, our success, our hope, our strength. He is also the substance. His presence in our lives is sufficient to fill us with peace. When we are in Christ we have peace with God and peace with ourselves. We also enjoy peace with others. As our minds are focused on God, we have perfect peace. It is a wholesome peace. It is not made up or fake or artificial. It has deep roots from within. It is not dependent on circumstances. It cannot be taken away by anyone.

We have perfect peace as we have absolute security in the Lord. All that we have accomplished, He has done for us. He fulfills His purpose in our lives. Nothing can thwart or defeat His plan for our lives. We can rest in Him like a child who is weaned and lies satisfied in her mother’s arms. He meets all of our need. As He forgives us, we can make peace with our past. There is nothing that He will not forgive and so there is no limit to the peace we have with our past. As He resides in us and lives with us as God Immaneul, we have peace with the present and in the present. As He is our God Ebenezer, He helps us with all our present tasks and responsibilities. As He is the Alpha and the Omega, He will stay with us to the very end and far beyond into eternity. We have no anxiety about the future as well as about our eternity. More than all that the Lord has done and does for us on the outside, He does a greater work within us of increasing us in faith, love and hope.

The Hebrew word, “Shalom” best sums up the comprehensive peace the Lord accomplishes for us. It is a holistic concept that represents and contains forgiveness, peace, progress, wholesomeness, prosperity, joy, health, success and eternal life. When Jesus said, “ It is finished”, He implied that He had finished His work to establish peace for all humanity, individually and collectively. He had broken every curse or limitation in our lives and set us free from guilt and the consequences of sin that destroys our peace. He had also poured out upon our lives the blessings of the Lord. The beautiful thing the woman Mary Magdalene had done for Him before His crucifixion in breaking her alabaster jar of nard to anoint Him, that He had done for all humanity. He had given up His precious and sacred life to guarantee our Shalom. The world cannot give this peace. The world cannot take it away too. Hence, it is not worthwhile losing this peace for anything in this world.

Prateep V Philip