Today, we are going to continue our focus on balance. This week is specifically on our thoughts, how we think. Let’s review this week: God’s thoughts are higher than yours. God thinks good thoughts about you. When we get into trouble of any kind, we can think about how good God has been to us. Today, we look at a promise of how thinking about God, focusing our thoughts on Him, can bring blessing.

Isaiah 26:3-4.

You will keep in perfect peace all who trust in you, all whose thoughts are fixed on you! Trust in the Lord always, for the Lord God is the eternal Rock.

Wow … perfect peace. Who doesn’t want that? But the promise of perfect of peace only comes how? Placing full trust and fixing our thoughts on God. Another way to communicate this would be to always have a bigger focus on God than any problem. When life puts us in quicksand, we can decide to stand on the rock that is God.

With this in mind listen again to the passage

Listen to this passage in The Message Bible: People with their minds set on you,  you keep completely whole, Steady on their feet,  because they keep at it and don’t quit. Depend on God and keep at it because in the Lord God you have a sure thing.

To have a balanced mind and a balanced life, to work toward complete wholeness, we must set our minds on God. Depend on Him.

Listen to our original verse once more: You will keep in perfect peace all who trust in you, all whose thoughts are fixed on you!

As you ruminate on this, let’s take some slow deep breaths once again.

Breathe deep then slowly exhale and let go of your strife and stress. Move into the balance God offers you in this new day by trusting Him.

Let’s pray together: “Heavenly Father, I long for peace. I want balance, to be steady. To have my feet on a rock. Help me to fix my thoughts on You, to keep my eyes on You and not the problems and challenges of my life…not to deny them but to defer them to You. Where they belong. As above, so below.”