You keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on you, because he trusts in you. Trust in the LORD forever, for the LORD GOD is an everlasting rock. (Isaiah 26.3-4)

Where do our intentions lean? As we live our day-in-day-out lives we make countless decisions and those decisions lean on our intentions. Without intentional effort if we find success in life it is at best accidental. Isaiah recognized that if we stayed our minds on the Lord, if we leaned our intentions toward God, He would keep us in peace. God will keep us in peace, but not just any peace, but in true Hebrew emphasis "peace peace". He will keep us in extreme peace.

Most people do not intentionally seek out chaos or pain. Distress can be the byproduct of our good or bad intentions, but it can be survived if, rooted deep within our soul, there is a profound peace on which we have leaned our actions and decisions. It comes down to trusting our intentions to God's trustworthiness.

Jesus is the rock of our everlasting peace. He is our perfect peace. Our repeated Shalom. We can stand assured on our decision to serve Him, even in the distress of difficult seasons, because He is our source of perfect peace, and He is eternal! We lean our intentions on Jesus and we washes us in His peace. Even more so, our peace is rooted in an everlasting, never-ending foundation, Jesus our everlasting rock of peace. As we make decisions today, let us rejoice in Jesus on whom we lean forever.

Jesus, thank you for seeing not just my actions but my intentions beneath them. Help me lean my intentions evermore on your everlasting foundation.