Isaiah 26:3 Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee: because he trusteth in thee.

I lost my peace, not because of the news, not because of politics, not because of injustice, not because of anything anyone has said or done to me but because I sinned.

Not trusting God is a sin. It is at the root of all the faithful who do not sin those sins everyone else calls sins, but has sinned his own brand of sin.

Sometimes it is hard to admit sin, after all, I haven’t broken any of the ten. Yet I lost my peace and there is not one to blame for that than me. I know in my heart that keeping my peace is a sure sign I am walking with God, so when I lose it, well, there you go. I have sinned.

I have hurt no one, I have kept my tongue, from all outward signs, no one could accuse me of sin. But I lost my peace, I stopped trusting God about something. For that I have to stop and do a close examination of self and find that place in my heart that needs to be filled once again with the trust I lost.

So this devotional will be short today. I have work to do.

On myself.

Isaiah 65:17 For, behold, I create new heavens and a new earth: and the former shall not be remembered, nor come into mind.

History as a record of the past exists in three forms; written, archeological and institutional memory. Written is an analogue left by the victors, archeology is the physical remains left to be unraveled through examination and comparison, while institutional memory is past down from person to person and is relevant in importance to the receiving generation only as it can find value in life.

All history takes on a role to teach us the values of cause and effect. Which form you adhere to does not matter, its only value is in cause and effect. It presumes importance as a tool to lift the veil of ignorance. Now we have this promise that in new creation of heavens and a new earth, history will cease to exist.

Isaiah 66:22 For as the new heavens and the new earth, which I will make, shall remain before me, saith the Lord, so shall your seed and your name remain.

Here we have a word of everlasting presence, we will no longer go out from the presence of the Lord. We will be with Him always. There is also one more piece of the puzzle of the new life which I find interesting.

Revelation 21:1 And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea.

No more sea. Throughout the bible the sea, oceans, pools, wells, waters and rivers have always been used as a way to relate to us the movement of the Holy Spirit in power and effect. This ends. Not that the Holy Spirit ends because He is God and God is One and eternal, but the role of the Holy Spirit as it relates to us through the scriptures will end.

Given that everything we knew, know and imagine will be gone and we will have no helper to show us, why do we insist on trying to define that which is not possible to imagine?

Vanity.