Today we are going to take a posture of peace by fully embracing a glorious alternative
to fragile living. Posture is a short audible fist bump to remind you God is with you in
everything. Together we're going to be emboldened to take a daily posture of perfect peace.
Psalm 119 verse 105 says this about the Lord. It says,
Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path.
This scripture I have just been soaking up all weekend and it was so cool because I literally
could feel peace rise up within me as this promise settled in my heart and renewed my
mind over the weekend. And you know I was reminded it is often way too easy to allow the words of
others to be the thing that leads me. You know whether it's something that someone said about me
or to me, either positive affirmations or negative condemnations, good or bad, it is way too easy
sometimes to be directed by those words. But it's actually a very fragile way to live, allowing
yourself to rise and fall in the current of people's opinions and perceptions and even their
actions. You know we justify it, we process our decision making sometimes by saying things like,
well they did this to me so I'm going to do this, or she said this about me so I'm going to respond
in this way, or you know he really likes me so I need to do this to keep it that way. But this
scripture reminds us that there is a glorious alternative to living so breakable and that is
letting God's word lead you and guide you. This psalm, this scripture, it says His word is a lamp
to my feet and a light to my path. He brings clarity to our present and gives us direction
for our future and we must be aware that you know because of the age in which we live, we're actually
probably more susceptible to the words of others than ever before. You know because of technology
and screens and our modern day habits, we have constant information coming at us. People have
more access to us than ever before and we have more access to them. However, it's also extremely
easy to access the word of God more than ever before. I mean I have apps on my phone that will
read the bible to me, that will send me a verse every day in my notifications, that I can you know
pull up multiple translations at one time, and even more than that, we always have constant access
to our helper the Holy Spirit and to the very presence of God. He is within us so you know
remember he told us he'll never leave us or forsake us so we have not been abandoned this year.
We have not ever been abandoned by God so let us not abandon his word or his truth by allowing
our thoughts, our feelings, our words, or actions be dictated by something or someone other than
our God. The promise of perfect peace is found in Isaiah 26 3. In Hebrew it is shalom shalom
meaning complete wholeness, nothing missing, nothing broken. This is who you are in Jesus
because of Jesus. You are a living testimony of Jesus's ultimate win. With every step you take
today you're putting Jesus's victory on display and Satan's defeat on replay.