he will keep in perfect peace those who are atradfast

If we think any government in the world can provide it, we are fooling ourselves.

If we look for lasting peace elsewhere, we won’t find it. He is only One who can make the promise that’s about to unfold. I’ll try not to wear you out with this, but seriously, every word matters. Just sixteen words in this verse, but every one packed with hope. And he calls us to sing a song of praise simply because he is worthy of it. But for God’s people, he promises peace in the eye of the storm. Oh my.Ī terrible day for those who’ve turned their backs on God.Ī glorious day for those who’ve put their trust in God.īeloved, that day is going to come as surely, swiftly, and with far more destructive force than any tornado. When is “that day”? The impending day of judgment on the earth.

We don’t know the tune, but these are lyrics to a song, since this chapter of Isaiah begins, “In that day this song will be sung in the land of Judah.” So, when I opened my Bible to your fourteenth favorite verse, I looked at the page with a lump firmly lodged in my throat.

If ever we needed an encouraging word, it’s this week. Tornadoes have claimed too many loved ones, demolished too many homes, torn apart too many lives. The church is represented as a strong city, whose walls and bulwarks are salvation, Isa 26:1 it is said to have gates which are to be opened to a righteous nation, Isa 26:2 its inhabitants, being such who trust in the Lord, are promised perfect peace, Isa 26:3 hence the saints are exhorted to trust in him, Isa 26:4 then follows an account of another city, described as lofty, and its inhabitants as dwelling on high, who are brought down, and trampled on, by the feet of the poor and needy, Isa 26:5,6 when the prophet returns to the righteous, and asserts their way to be uprightness, because their path is weighed or levelled by God the most upright, Isa 26:7 and in the name of the church declares that they had waited for the Lord in the way of his judgments and that the desire of their souls was to his name, and the remembrance of it and that they continued, and would continue, to desire him, and seek after him, seeing righteousness was to be learned by his judgments, Isa 26:8,9 and though the wicked would not be brought to repentance and reformation by the goodness of God, nor take notice of his hand, yet they should see and be ashamed, and destroyed at last, Isa 26:10,11 but notwithstanding these judgments of God in the earth, the church professes her faith in the Lord, that he would give her peace and prosperity, from the consideration of what he had wrought for her, and in her, Isa 26:12 and rejects all other lords but him, Isa 26:13 who were dead, and should not live again, but were visited and destroyed, and their memory made to perish, Isa 26:14 but the righteous nation should be increased, though they should meet with trouble, which would cause them to go to the throne of grace, and there pour out their complaints, express their pain and distresses, and the disappointments they had met with, Isa 26:15-18 to which an answer is returned, promising a glorious resurrection, Isa 26:19 and calling upon the people of God to retire to their chambers for protection in the mean while, until the punishment to be inflicted on the inhabitants of the earth for their sins was over, Isa 26:20,21.Categories: Blog, The 20 Verses You Love Most

This chapter contains a song of praise for the safety and prosperity of the church, and the destruction of its enemies.

He will keep in perfect peace those who are atradfast