When Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain returned from Munich after signing an agreement with Adolf Hitler in 1938, he announced that he believed he had brought about "Peace for our time, " We all know how that worked out over the next decade. Everyone is still looking for peace, or their version of it. Peace is commonly thought of as "the absence of conflict", even if we feel obligated to go to war to trample our enemy underfoot. Can we ever expect to find that kind of "peace"? History says, no.

The Bible presents another view of what real peace is, and this word study of the Hebrew text of Isaiah 26.3 is a perfect foundation for understanding what real peace is, and not only why we can expect to find it, but we are expected to find it at all times.

This podcast is a recording of a message preached at Union Baptist Church, Harrison, Arkansas on June 11.  I have added a footnote at the end, because my subsequent thinking on the subject brought a deeper understanding of what this message is all about.

📄Read the text here.