Today, we're going to take a posture of peace by leaning into God's permanent passion for 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. In Psalm chapter 100, verse 5, it says,
For the Lord is good, and his love endures forever. His faithfulness continues through
all generations. Okay, did you catch that? Endures forever, continues through all generations.
God is permanently passionate about you. He is permanently passionate about you.
Genesis 1-26 says that he made us in his image and likeness. So just to be clear,
he is not made in our likeness. God is not like a human. The Bible says in Numbers 23-19,
God is not a human that he should lie. He's not a human being that he should change his mind. Now,
why do I say that? Because too often, we give God human characteristics, especially when it
comes to defining and trying to understand his love for us. Sometimes we give him the
characteristics of an abusive father, saying that he creates our suffering to teach us something or
to discipline us. Sometimes we give him the characteristics of an unfaithful husband,
believing that we must perform in a certain way to get him to show up and be with us and stay
with us. Sometimes we give him the characteristics of a finicky friend, believing that there is a
chance that he won't do what he said he'll do, or he won't come through on his promises. You know,
even in the best human love that we can experience on earth through healthy families
and friendships and marriages, even those can sometimes feel fragile. Those relationships are
still susceptible to disappointment, blown expectations, and misunderstandings. But God
is God. There is no one like him. We say it. We sing it often. We sing,
there is no one like you, Lord. But do we believe it? Do we believe there is no one like him? If we
do, we must also believe that he loves us like no one else loves us. He is permanently passionate
about you. My friend and mentor Graham Cook once asked a question that just has never left me.
He asked, do you really believe what God believes about you? You see, it's way too easy to believe
that what you currently think about yourself and what others think about you is what God thinks
about you. But God is God. And I'm telling you, if you start seeing yourself in all that you
encounter in life the way God sees, it will change your life. You will live differently.
You will live powerfully. To be totally honest, 2020 has not been at all what I expected. It's
actually been so much better than I could ever have dreamed. Because despite all the craziness
and chaos of external circumstances, there has been this victorious steadiness in me like never
before. And let me just tell you, it's not by my own willpower, brilliance, positive thinking. It
is from a living God who I know is permanently passionate about me and you. And it's this fresh
awareness of the empowering presence of God within me that has made me more myself than ever
before. This is what I want for you. This is why I even host Posture every day. I'm sharing this
message over and over again because I see the chokehold of anxiety and unbelief going limp
as our generation pulls back from perfectionism and performance and takes a rightful posture of
perfect peace. This is what Jesus died to give us. Now this Wednesday, Graham and I, we're kicking
off a three-day live challenge on Facebook and I would love for you to join us. I'm going to put
the link in the description of this episode with all the details. We're going to be talking more
about this. We're going to be talking about this permanent passion that God has for us.
what God actually believes about us, and we're going to be talking about the position Jesus put us in.
And it's a good position.
Let's be the generation who takes God at His word
and displays the glory of His permanent passion and perfect peace
to a world who is desperately longing for this good news.
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.