Reviewing Psalm 23 we begin to understand the unshakeable and deep peace of walking with God. A peace and joy beyond the first view of your dear beloved, beyond your first sight of you newborn child, greater than the most magnificent sunrise and more soothing and quieting than the sunset. More rapturous than the most beautiful song, and more breath taking than the sight of the soaring eagle, or first steps of a newborn fawn. More beautiful, more soul healing, is the palpable presence and the sure knowledge of God with us, in us and always loving us. This is what He desires for all of us. It is what I have and what I passionately pray for all of you! May all of you know and have as your treasure, and understand, the many riches and facets of 1 Chronicles 11:9 “And David became more and more powerful, because the Lord Almighty was with him.”
Highest among health is spiritual, emotional and mental health. Many physically healthy people have no spiritual, emotional and mental health. Yet many people whose hope is in the Lord suffer because of poor health but the joy the Lord has placed in their heart is unfailing. The one who comes to comfort them is lifted by the joy of the Lord that radiates from them. Physical health is a blessing we all seek. But the truth is that the health of our spirit, our emotions and our mental health is the greatest health. Physical health may not lift a broken spirit, but a spirit united with God will sustain the physically challenged. Besides, the body will perish, but the spirit lives forever. Proverbs 17:22 “A cheerful heart is good medicine, but a crushed spirit dries up the bones.”
Being enslaved, or constricted, or inhibited from the blessings of freedom is a yoke horrible to bear. At the start of His ministry Jesus was, in Luke 4:18, telling everyone the reason that He came to live among us. He reminded them of the messianic prophecy of Isaiah 61:1. They say “The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because he has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim freedom for the prisoners and recovery of sight for the blind, to set the oppressed free, 19 to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor.” The incomprehensible but fully available to us joy of the Lord comes from being set free from the chains that bind us. Chains of sin and struggling against the love of God. In Jesus those chains are broken that we may enjoy an intimate relationship with God. Peace with Jesus is peace with God. Peace with God is the highest joy. A joy that blossoms even in the most inhospitable conditions. Joy is Jesus within.
If we truly let God have us so we will have God, then He will give us the most important health, a heath that brings an unshakable peace. It is a peace only from God that transcends all understanding and actually guards our hearts and minds with joy and happiness. All this is found in God’s love that is expressed to us and given to us only through Jesus Christ His Son. So it comes down to the simple phrase often seen, but unfortunately too often neglected “Know Jesus, know peace. No Jesus, no peace.” My sincere pray is that all of you Know Jesus, and thereby know peace.
Psalm 150:6 – Let everything that has breath praise the Lord. Praise the Lord!
Micah 7:7 – But as for me, I watch in hope for the Lord, I wait for God my Savior; my God will Hear me.
Micah 6:8 – He has shown You, O man, what is good; And what does the Lord require of You but to do justly, to love mercy, And to walk humbly with Your God.
Numbers 6:24-26 “The Lord bless you and keep you; 25 The Lord make His face shine on you and be gracious to you; 26 The Lord turn His face toward you and give you peace.”