Perfect peace is in One Person.

You keep him in perfect peace

whose mind is stayed on you,

because he trusts in you.

Isaiah 26:3

There is no reason to stop trusting God just because the world is currently in this terrible disease pandemic. Plagues have rolled across the globe before. And they may do so again before God remakes it all. Freedom from the threat of illness is not where we should find our comfort. God wants to be the keeper of our peace. God wants us to trust Him. He has His people under His care. He will make of our present turmoil what will help us see Him even more. If you have a hard time believing that, I urge your to read and believe more of Isaiah 26, especially this truth from verse 9:

“My soul yearns for you in the night;

my spirit within me earnestly seeks you.

For when your judgments are in the earth,

the inhabitants of the world learn righteousness.”

That’s right... God can bring a crisis to teach the world what is right again.

Many today however have too much time to randomly search for peace somewhere other than in God’s sovereign wisdom. It saddens me to see all the countless conspiracy videos being promoted on social media. I just use that cool snooze feature for Facebook friends given to this. I got no time for what distracts me from the real truth... which is that people need Jesus. My advice is this: You see something that claims to break open a global conspiracy? Just scroll on by... YouTube is not a journalistically reliable medium for truth... Let God’s truth inform your times! Please! Trust that God will make of this crisis a way to draw people to the peace that can only be known by believing the gospel. And talk about what Jesus has done for you!

The reason that perfect peace can come at all is because the Prince of Peace, Jesus, became our peace (I urge you to read through Ephesians 2:13-16 to think through the depth of that reality.... not one person, or ethnic group, or tribe on this planet is outside the scope of the kingdom’s periphery). In Jesus, our Peace, we can find stability in all this chaos. There is no speculation worthy of pulling our minds from His worship. There is no sorrow that can take away our confidence in Him. Jesus is our trust. We can know with certainty His unshakeable, perfect peace. Trust only Jesus!