The Prophet promises peace, perfect peace—what? You are not enjoying it?

Sunday, maybe, but not now, Monday.

Your fault, not God’s, not the Prophet’s.

The way to perfect peace is the way of complete and thoughtful and confident trust, a leaning upon God of our whole person entirely, and not just to get by for now, so that, pausing a bit, as we might sit on a park bench, we can then get up off the bench and walk on up the trail alone.

The way of perfect peace is the way of relying on God for life, for life.

So that we never walk alone, breathe on our own, think our own thoughts, make our own plans, go our own way…again.

This is the way, the faith way, the only way, the only access to the perfect peace of a prophet’s promise.

But you find yourself, we find ourselves passing by the door, not simply, completely, thoughtfully, confidently, or biblically trusting.

We are so prone to try some other door, find some other way in to the peace we know we have in our Savior, but which we simply cannot and do not…believe so that we experience the promised peace.

We try the way of self trust. We lean on other things and powers to get where we want to go, or maybe, just lean on God a little, but still wanting only to go where we want to go.

Complete trust seems beyond us. If God would believe for us, maybe we would believe that. If we in our sinfulness were simply not involved, then maybe perfect peace would be possible, even a reality.

But for now what is real to us is a virus, is that we are out of work, is that this whole society is messed up, is that the normal is disappearing in our collective rear-view mirrors, and there is a “new normal” looming on the horizon like some Orwellian government tyranny and dependency and hand-outs.

We can not seem to get beyond that.

Our problem? We think too little of God, or that God is too little. We do not trust the power of His communication of truth—the truth itself, the word of God. The truth of God with us, Jesus, God broken for us, God risen for us, God’s Spirit in us.

Last time, yesterday, we devoted ourselves to the truth of God’s sovereignty. That truth that God makes peace and creates calamity (Isaiah 45:7), and is King, therefore, over this pandemic.

Our problem? Between Sunday (when we felt good) and Monday (when peace has left) we have thought too little of that truth of the Kingliness of God.

We need more—of the same truth, of the God of that truth, that sovereignty of God.

Like goodness. God is sovereign. He is good. He is the good sovereign.

Governors have power, but they may not be good. Good people may be good, but powerless.

God is King. God is good. Let us think on both, and on One. That will be depending on the Lord, the Holy One of Israel, in truth (Isaiah 10:20).

We will have entered the room of Christ’s perfect peace. Even today.

For such a time as this.

With you in Him