What a glorious chapter from Isaiah!
You keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on you, because he trusts in you.
Perfect peace! The peace that passes all understanding. It flows as a gift from God into the heart of the person who keeps his mind fixed upon the Lord, never forgetting that we walk, live, move and breathe in His sight, and we keep our minds so fixed because we trust in the Lord and His gracious promises to us.
O Lord, you will ordain peace for us, for you have indeed done for us all our works.
Can anyone say monergism? There it is! The peace that we have in the Lord rests specifically in the certain joy that He has done all our works for us, and that all the works we now do, are His works in us. His mighty "tetelesthai" rings out AS our very peace.
And if such joys were not enough, then the comfort of this verse:
Your dead shall live, their bodies shall rise. You who dwell in the dust, awake and sing for joy! For your dew is a dew of light and the earth will give birth to her dead.
Resurrection beckons! And what a glorious morning that will be when the dead are raised and the song of joy begins that will never end. Glory to You, Lord Jesus Christ, for Your Cross and for Your Resurrection!
1 comment:
In the Septuagint, it's "O Lord our God, give us peace: for thou hast rendered to us all things."
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