Trusting God (Part 1)
Kung Fu Panda 2’s Bible lesson
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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 (ESV)
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Do you have any “guilty pleasures?”
Most of us do.
I have quite a few movies on my guilty pleasure list (movies that I probably shouldn’t like or enjoy as much as I do). Kung Fu Panda is on this list.
It’s an animated movie about a … well, it’s in the title, haha.
Anyway, in the second movie, Po (the kung fu panda) is on a journey to find inner peace. As you can imagine, this journey dregs up all kinds of deep wounds from his past that he must deal with.
Inner peace is difficult to find.
Yet here we have a verse that gives us a formula for perfect peace.
Keep your mind fixed on God and He will keep you in perfect peace.
Practically, keeping my mind “stayed” on anything means that I am exposed to it all the time. For example, I spend a lot of time watching the stock market as part of my trading work. In some ways, my mind is often fixed on stocks.
So, how can I keep my mind fixed on God?
By spending daily time with God.
I try to do this for you a bit in these emails.
But, for myself, I also spend each morning reading through my Bible-in-a-year plan … praying … and reviewing my memory verses.
This is the best way I know how to keep my mind stayed on God … and leads me to perfect peace.
All right, more tomorrow.
— Ricky Ketchum
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