Php 4:7 And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.

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

Using Strong’s Concordance to expand my understanding….

God will guard, protect, maintain me in (Hebrew: Peace, Peace…peace emphasized) undisturbed, perfect peace…..when my mind …my purpose, imagination, frame….is leaning upon or taking hold of, bearing  up, establishing,  holding, laying, leaning, lying hard, putting, resting self, setting self, standing fast,  sustained on Thee, because I trust, am confident or sure: – am boldly  confident, secure, sure,  in Thee (God).

For the one for whom God denied a deep desire, trust is hard.  We pray, with all our hearts we believe if we have enough faith in God’s ability, He can do that requested thing.  He is God. Creator of the Universe.  We believe that, and are confident if He can create the world surely He can manage to accomplish that which we have so faithfully asked of Him. 

But for what are we trusting ?  And in whom are we really trusting ?  We think that our desires are pure, and good, and best, and right.  But are they?  Can we know the mind of God? After a major life event that culminates in an outcome less than what we would choose or desire, after all the trial is over and we are left with thoughts of having been disappointed, or even abandoned by God we need to reflect, what exactly was our motive?  And, what should our motive be?

If we have by faith  accepted that Christ died to offer us a way to be reconciled to God, trusting that Christ’s death, burial and resurrection were enough to satisfy God’s standard for us to be His adopted child….the outcome of that faith is positive, we have assurance and peace we are saved for all eternity….then isn’t God worthy of our trust in His plan for all things in our life, even the hard things?

Our prayer for a specific outcome, if closely examined, is commonly a request for God to make our life comfortable, to fix what hurts, to give us what we don’t have, replace that which shakes us out of our place of evenness and calm with what would restore our routine back to that in which we are content with or satisfied.  That is not trusting God’s plan and purpose.  It is staying in a place, a season, a comfort zone that requires the least amount of effort of faith in God’s goodness, His design for our lives. 

It is asking God to bless our plan rather than blessing us with His plan/ purpose.

Complete, total, utter trust in God makes a bold statement in the face of the worst of life’s circumstances.  That trust shines out to declare, with Job 13:15   “Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him:….. “  because we realize there are worse things than the discomforts of this world.  We see with our finite mind’s eye, where God knows our Eternal destiny.  If we can, by faith, trust God to accept us in the beloved, as His adopted child, for the salvation of our pitiful soul, can we not then trust Him for all other needs, no matter how that “feels”?  Trust that He is good, and gives His children good things?  In all things we are to be looking for God to manifest His love and grace to us. Because that’s what He does.  Our task is not to be comfortable, to strive for that place of equilibrium.  Rather, we are to know God well enough to be able to give Him honor, and glory, praise and gratitude for His plan and purpose no matter what the circumstance.  Trusting Him rather than our own perception of what we think is good.

Pro 3:5  Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding.

Pro 3:6  In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths.

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

Back to Strong’s Concordance, to clarify:

God will guard, protect, maintain me in (Hebrew: Peace, Peace…peace emphasized) undisturbed, perfect peace…..when my mind …my purpose, imagination, frame….is leaning upon or taking hold of,

bearing  up, establishing,  holding, laying, leaning, lying hard, putting, resting self, setting self, standing fast,  sustained on Thee, because I trust, am confident or sure: – am boldly  confident, secure, sure,  in Thee (God).

For the one for whom God denied a deep desire, trust is hard.  We pray, with all our hearts we believe if we have enough faith in God’s ability, He can do that requested thing.  He is God. Creator of the Universe.  We believe that, and are confident if He can create the world surely He can manage to accomplish that which we have so faithfully asked of Him. 

But for what are we trusting?   And in whom are we

trusting ?  We think that our desires are pure, and good, and best, and right.  But are they?  Can we know the mind of God? After a major life event that culminates in an outcome less than what we would choose or desire, after all the trial is over and we are left with thoughts of having been disappointed, or even abandoned by God we need to reflect.  What exactly was our motive?  And, what should our motive be?

If we have by faith  accepted that Christ died to offer us a way to be reconciled to God, trusting that Christ’s death, burial and resurrection were enough to satisfy God’s standard for us to be His adopted child….the outcome of that faith is positive, we have assurance and peace we are saved for all eternity….then isn’t God worthy of our trust in His plan for all things in our life, even the hard things?

Our prayer for a specific outcome, if closely examined, is commonly a request for God to make our life comfortable, to fix what hurts, to give us what we don’t have, replace that which shakes us out of our place of evenness and calm with what would restore our routine back to that in which we are content with or satisfied.  That is not trusting God’s plan and purpose.  It is staying in a place, a season, a comfort zone that requires the least amount of effort of faith in God’s goodness, His design for our lives. 

It is asking God to bless our plan rather than blessing us with His plan/ purpose.

Complete, total, utter trust in God makes a bold statement in the face of the worst of life’s circumstances.  That trust shines out to declare, with Job 13:15   “Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him:….. “  because we realize there are worse things than the discomforts of this world.  We see with our finite mind’s eye, where God knows our Eternal destiny.  If we can, by faith, trust God to accept us in the beloved, as His adopted child, for the salvation of our pitiful soul, can we not then trust Him for all other needs, no matter how that “feels”?  Trust that He is good, and gives His children good things?  In all things we are to be looking for God to manifest His love and grace to us. Because that’s what He does.  Our task is not to be comfortable, to strive for that place of equilibrium.  Rather, we are to know God well enough to be able to give Him honor, and glory, praise and gratitude for His plan and purpose no matter what the circumstance.  Trusting Him rather than our own perception of what we think is good.

Pro 3:5  Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding.

Pro 3:6  In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths.