As you can see, we are not in my normal studio.
My husband and Bruce and I were on a road trip this week.
We traveled North Carolina to visit some family.
And Bruce and I thought it would be great to wait to record this week's episode
so we could do it on the water. We could record at the beach.
But we overlooked one minor detail, and that was the weather report.
So as you can see, we made it to the water, but it's really wet outside.
So we are going to take a posture of peace today, if you are watching, totally vlog style.
We're just going to go with the flow today.
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.
In keeping with this road trip theme, I've got my digital Bible and notes here.
And I'm going to be reading today from Psalm 34, verses 1 through 5.
It says,
Now, David wrote these words in the middle of crisis and betrayal.
Saul was out to kill him. David was on the run for his life.
And this happened even after all God had promised David.
This happened after David killed Goliath, after there was victory.
And you can read that story, you can read what was going on when David wrote this in 1 Samuel 21.
But I want us to focus today on verse 4 specifically, where he writes,
What stuck out to me is that what he doesn't write is,
Now, God did that eventually.
David was delivered from Saul, and he was eventually made king.
All that God had promised happened. Of course it did.
However, in the middle of crisis, in the middle of pain, in the middle of very confusing circumstances,
David says,
What incredible freedom David must have had.
Imagine the freedom, the power, the peace that you would experience being unafraid in the middle of crisis.
This is what God can do for you.
You can live unrestricted, unrestrained by fear.
And think about this, you know, in the years, and it was years,
that it took between David being anointed as king and David becoming king,
there was so much opportunity for him to allow fear to take hold of his heart,
to take over his mind, and to take him out completely.
But the Lord delivered David from all of his fears,
so that when David faced the caves, when David faced the threats and the dangers,
when David faced the injustices, when he faced the battles, when he faced failure,
when he faced loss, when he faced any circumstance that did not align with what God had promised him,
David was still able to move forward because he was unrestrained by fear.
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' ultimate win.
With every step you take today, you're putting Jesus' victory on display and Satan's defeat on replay.