Peace in the Midst
“ You will keep in perfect peace him whose mind is steadfast, because he trusts in you. Trust in the Lord forever, for the Lord, the Lord, is the Rock eternal ” —Isaiah 26:3, 4, NIV. I’m the comma queen. I put commas everywhere—often where they aren’t necessary. They say that commas go in all those places where we naturally would take a breath. Since I’m short of breath a lot of the time I suppose that’s why my writing always has an excess of the little beasties! The first comma in this verse for today is unfortunate, and since commas aren’t part of inspired Scripture but were added later I’m going to happily ignore this one. Mind you, the writer makes perfectly clear what it is that keeps the mind steadfast, what it is that provides for us that perfect peace—despite the unfortunate comma. Peace, the result of a mind that isn’t tossed about as James would later say, is the absence of doubt about God’s ability to give wisdom when we ask for it (James 1:6). Peace comes with trus...