If our hope is in those things, if we are counting on, depending on, trusting in those things, they will fail us. Not our jobs there is no lasting security there.
Not our families that can be stripped away. Because God is our rock, because God is our security. Not because of our act of trust, but because of the object in which our trust is placed. We are kept in peace because we trust in God. Here is the means of being kept, being steadied. God himself maintains and steadies us.īecause he trusts in you. This is passive God’s word and God’s character have a steadying effect on our minds. When we set mind and heart on Jesus, our minds are steadied, ‘ stayed on you’. So many things compete for our affections and our attention, but we are to fix our attention on him. We are to steady the attention of our minds on Jesus, to set our affections on him our hearts and thoughts are to be captured by him. ‘ Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth’ (Col.3:2). And we believers are commanded to ‘ seek the things that are above, where Christ is’ (Col.3:1) we are to. ‘ You will keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on you.’ In Colossians 3, we saw that this peace is for those who have believed in Jesus, who have been completely forgiven, who have been raised with Christ, who are experiencing new life in Jesus. God is our keeper the keeper of peace you will keep him in perfect peace. This is the peace that you are to have ‘rule in your hearts …and be thankful’ (Col.3:15). This is ‘ the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding ’ peace that ‘will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus’ (Phil.4:7). Last week we looked at the peace of Christ Jesus said ‘ Peace I leave with you my peace I give to you’ (Jn,14:27).
You keep him in ‘peace peace’, perfect peace. Just last week, someone gave me a little laminated scrap of paper with this verse written on it. This is a great verse of encouragement and hope to cling to. ‘ You keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on you, because he trusts in you.’ (Isaiah 26:3) There is no other support but that and the connection requires us to understand this of him.03/29 Kept in Perfect Peace (Isaiah 26:3) Audio available at: Īs I was contemplating God’s peace in the middle of uncertain times, a familiar verse came to mind. The Hebrew is simply, whose mind is stayed, supported (סמוּך sâmûk) that is, evidently, supported by God. The expression, 'is stayed on thee,' in the Hebrew does not express the idea that the mind is stayed on God, though that is evidently implied. Either interpretation suits the connection, and will make sense. Here it may mean the thoughts themselves, or the mind that forms the thoughts.
Then it denotes anything that is formed by the mind - its thoughts, imaginations, devices Genesis 8:21 Deuteronomy 31:21. The word which is rendered 'mind' (יצר yētser) is derived from יצר yâtsar to form, create, devise and it properly denotes that which is formed or made Psalm 103:14 Isaiah 29:16, Hebrews 2:18. Whose mind is stayed on thee - Various interpretations have been given of this passage, but our translation has probably hit upon the exact sense. And so it has been with tens of thousands of the confessors and martyrs, and of the persecuted and afflicted people of God, who have been enabled to commit their cause to him, and amidst the storms of persecution, and even in the prison and at the stake, have been kept in perfect peace. So it was with the Redeemer when he was persecuted and maligned (1 Peter 2:23 compare Luke 23:46). Their mind was, therefore, kept in entire peace. They still trusted in him still believed that he could and would deliver them.
Yet their confidence in God had not been shaken. They had been subjected to reproaches and to scorn Psalm 137:1-9 had been stripped of their property and honor and had been reduced to the condition of prisoners and captives. The inhabitants of Judea had been borne to a far distant land. That is, the mind that has confidence in God shall not be agitated by the trials to which it shall be subject by persecution, poverty, sickness, want, or bereavement. In perfect peace - Hebrew as in the Margin, 'Peace, peace ' the repetition of the word denoting, as is usual in Hebrew, emphasis, and here evidently meaning undisturbed, perfect peace. Their own feelings they are here represented as uttering in the form of general truths to be sources of consolation to others. Thou wilt keep him - The following verses to Isaiah 26:11, contain moral and religious reflections, and seem designed to indicate the resignation evinced by the 'righteous nation' during their long afflictions.
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