JULY

You will keep in perfect peace him whose mind is steadfast, because he trusts in you. Isaiah 26:3

Two artists were each commissioned to paint a picture to illustrate the concept of rest. The first chose to paint a tranquil scene of the still waters of a remote lake surrounded by mountains. The second painted the scene of a thundering waterfall, with a fragile birch tree bending over the foam. At the fork of a branch, almost wet from the spray, a little robin sat on it's nest. Someone asked to compare the pictures described the first as 'stagnation' and the second as 'rest'. Arguing that in rest there are always two elements - tranquillity and energy: silence and turbulence; fearlessness and fearfulness.

This is the victory of faith. It is easy to 'rest' when all is quiet and peaceful; but to rest in the midst of a storm, that is perfect peace!

Today, as you go out to meet the trials and testings of life, you can receive the peace of God which passes all understanding. How? By turning everything over to Him.

'Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.' Philippians 4:6&7
 

Rev David Irvine