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Today we are going to take a posture of peace by fully embracing a glorious alternative

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to fragile living. Posture is a short audible fist bump to remind you God is with you in

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everything. Together we're going to be emboldened to take a daily posture of perfect peace.

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Psalm 119 verse 105 says this about the Lord. It says,

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Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path.

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This scripture I have just been soaking up all weekend and it was so cool because I literally

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could feel peace rise up within me as this promise settled in my heart and renewed my

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mind over the weekend. And you know I was reminded it is often way too easy to allow the words of

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others to be the thing that leads me. You know whether it's something that someone said about me

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or to me, either positive affirmations or negative condemnations, good or bad, it is way too easy

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sometimes to be directed by those words. But it's actually a very fragile way to live, allowing

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yourself to rise and fall in the current of people's opinions and perceptions and even their

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actions. You know we justify it, we process our decision making sometimes by saying things like,

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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

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in this way, or you know he really likes me so I need to do this to keep it that way. But this

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scripture reminds us that there is a glorious alternative to living so breakable and that is

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letting God's word lead you and guide you. This psalm, this scripture, it says His word is a lamp

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to my feet and a light to my path. He brings clarity to our present and gives us direction

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for our future and we must be aware that you know because of the age in which we live, we're actually

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probably more susceptible to the words of others than ever before. You know because of technology

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and screens and our modern day habits, we have constant information coming at us. People have

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more access to us than ever before and we have more access to them. However, it's also extremely

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easy to access the word of God more than ever before. I mean I have apps on my phone that will

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read the bible to me, that will send me a verse every day in my notifications, that I can you know

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pull up multiple translations at one time, and even more than that, we always have constant access

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to our helper the Holy Spirit and to the very presence of God. He is within us so you know

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remember he told us he'll never leave us or forsake us so we have not been abandoned this year.

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We have not ever been abandoned by God so let us not abandon his word or his truth by allowing

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our thoughts, our feelings, our words, or actions be dictated by something or someone other than

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our God. The promise of perfect peace is found in Isaiah 26 3. In Hebrew it is shalom shalom

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meaning complete wholeness, nothing missing, nothing broken. This is who you are in Jesus

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because of Jesus. You are a living testimony of Jesus's ultimate win. With every step you take

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today you're putting Jesus's victory on display and Satan's defeat on replay.