Welcome to episode 19.
Today, we're going to take on a posture of peace by answering only to the name that God calls us.
Hi, I'm Lindsay Van Zale.
Posture is a podcast that serves as a short, audible fist bump to remind you that God is in everything.
Together, we're going to be emboldened to take a daily posture of perfect peace.
Isaiah chapter 43 verses 1 and 2 says this,
Has it ever occurred to you that God takes it personally when Satan tries to attack you?
After all, don't you take it personally when someone you love is in a place of suffering or being attacked by someone else?
I assure you that you and I are not more compassionate than God.
This was recently illuminated to me in a really fresh way when a friend of a friend, so someone I don't even know personally, was suffering.
He was in danger of going blind, losing his eyesight completely.
And there was a surgery that could save his eyesight, but he was unable to afford the surgery by himself.
So friends of his gathered around, used their network to gather funds so that they could pay for the surgery so he wouldn't have to lose his eyesight.
And I could not help but do what I could to help alleviate this person's suffering and help redeem his situation.
So I found myself contributing, and I'm sure you've done this several times yourself when you've contributed to a fundraiser or a GoFundMe or you've volunteered in your community or in disaster relief.
There's something in you that can't help but do something about the situation.
And that is just who God is as well.
We see this through the life of Jesus in the Gospels.
He was often moved with compassion to do something to redeem people's situation, whether it was provision or healing or freedom or protection of their reputation or the way that society saw them.
Jesus was often moved with compassion.
He wasn't moved by guilt.
He wasn't moved by pity, just like we're not necessarily when we're helping, but we are moved to do something because we feel this drawing through compassion.
And God is the same with you.
Today, he is eager and willing and most certainly able to redeem your situations.
The beauty of it is that even in the midst of what would seem to be not yet redeemed circumstances in our lives, we sit solid in a redeemed identity.
It's who we are in Christ because of who God is as our mighty redeemer.
And God calls you mine.
He claims you.
He owns it.
And when Satan tries to attack you, God can't help but do something about the injustice because through his justice, he sent Jesus to pay for your redemption.
And friend, Jesus is going to get what he paid for.
So what we can do today is partner with this truth by answering only to the name that God calls us.
Instead of saying things like, I'm so stressed, I'm so overwhelmed, I'm so broken, it's so hopeless, it's never going to change.
Remind yourself, I am redeemed because I am God's.
And watch friend, as the not yet redeemed circumstances bow to your redeemer.
The promise of perfect peace is found in Isaiah 26, 3.
And in Hebrew, it is shalom, shalom, meaning complete wholeness.
Nothing missing, nothing broken.
This is who you are in Jesus.
Let's declare this together.
Today, I am kept in perfect peace.
With my whole heart, I trust the Lord.
I am strong, I am victorious, I am whole.
Remember friend, you are a living testimony of Jesus' ultimate win.
Not because of anything you did, but because of what he did for you.
With every step you take today, you're putting Jesus' victory on display and Satan's defeat on replay.
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