Daily Devotionals

Devotional: January 22nd

" Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee." - Isaiah 26:3.

Bring your mind to God; bring it to him daily and hourly, and daily and hourly he will fill it with its true treasure.

All nature exists in vain where there is no peace in the mind. Wherefore are the skies blue, and the earth green, and the mountains sublime, and the rivers joyful, if there be not peace at heart? The flowers have no perfume, the birds no song, the voice of man no charm, where the mind which they were created to please is without susceptibility to their benefits. Bring me not the fruits of the earth, nor precious stones, nor thousands of gold and silver, nor the votive offerings of a nation. Bring me peace, restore my disorganized mind. Till then, I have ears, but they hear no music; eyes, but they see no beauty; an understanding, but it grasps not truth; feet, but they move with no alacrity.

Ah! it is only he that made your mind, that can restore it. He has the only bow that can draw music from this violin. He has made the mind for peace; and he has made peace for the mind, perfect peace. Perfect, as contrasted with any peace that the world can give. Perfect, because it is a holy peace; sin has nothing to do with it. Perfect, because enduring. Perfect, as being Christ’s own peace. " My peace I give unto you," - the peace of God.

The mind of man must be stayed on something greater than itself. It must be stayed upon the great mind of God. A house can better do without a foundation; a monument with out a pedestal; an infant without the parents’ arm.

" Thou wilt keep him." These words express the covenant of God; and faith in that covenant.

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