Living with the Peace of God
Mother’s Day 2025 May 11, 2025
Pastor Kelvin Kauffeldt
Living with the Peace of God
- Which Transcends All Understanding -
Isaiah 26
Feeling overwhelmed? Are the pressures of life wearing you down? When you try to think about the future, does it appear so bleak that you can’t even imagine what it will look like? Each day we need God’s Word to give us a fresh perspective to help us experience the peace of God, which transcends all understanding.
To experience the peace of God, daily:
1. Hold fast to the hope of your secure and glorious future (vs. 1-6)
- We need our minds and hearts refreshed regularly and grounded anew in the hope of what we know lies ahead (cf. Rev. 21:25-27)
- In the midst of challenging circumstances, God is able to keep in perfect peace those whose minds are steadfastly trusting in Him (cf. Phil. 4:8)
- Trusting God is a way of living that involves our whole being: mind, heart and body (cf. Prov. 3:5-7)
In every circumstance, intentionally place your trust in the eternal Rock, Jesus Christ. Hold fast to the sure hope of your secure and glorious future and you will grow in experiencing the peace of God that transcends all understanding.
2. Make it the desire of your heart to bring glory to God’s name (vs. 7-18)
- Even though the road can be rough, our Heavenly Father makes the path level and smooth
- Living in obedience to the Lord is one of the strongest testimonies showing that we trust Him in the waiting (cf. Mt. 5:14-16)
- It will renew our strength and give us purpose in the midst of navigating the ‘potholes’ on the journey (cf. 1 Cor. 10:31)
Daily lean into God and rely on His strength to assist you in displaying His character in everything you do and say, that’s what it means to bring glory to God’s name.
3. Celebrate the promises of God to those who belong to Him (vs. 19-21)
- “I am the resurrection and the life. The one who believes in me, even if he dies, will live. Everyone who lives and believes in me will never die.” (cf. Jn. 11:25-26)
- “For as in Adam all die, so in Christ all will be made alive. But each in turn: Christ, the first fruits; then when he comes, those who belong to him. Death has been swallowed up in victory.”
(cf. 1 Cor. 15:22-23, 54b)
- The doctrine of our salvation is the secure foundation for our peace (cf. vs. 3; 2 Cor.1:20-22)
In whom or what do you place your hope and trust? “If only for this life we have hope in Christ, we are of all people most to be pitied” Apostle Paul (2 Cor. 15:19). “Resurrection awareness is something that must be cultivated, especially in our culture where maintenance of life has become almost cultic.” John Oswalt
“Trust in the LORD forever, for the LORD, The LORD himself, is the Rock eternal.” Is. 26:4
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