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best for His children (Rom. 8:28).“Which surpasses all understanding.”This refers to the divine ori-
gin of peace.It transcends human intellect,analysis,and insight.“Will guard.”A military term mean-
ing “to keep watch over.”God’s peace guards believers from anxiety, doubt, fear, and distress.“Your
hearts and minds.”Paul was not making a distinction between the two—he was giving a compre-
hensive statement referring to the whole inner person. Because of the believer’s union with Christ,
He guards his inner being with His peace.
And believers are to think on what is true (v.8),what is found in God (2 Tim.2:25),in Christ (Eph.
4:20,21),in the Holy Spirit (John 16:13),and in God’s Word (John 17:17).They are to think on what is
“worthy of respect,”whatever is worthy of awe and adoration,i.e.,the sacred as opposed to the pro-
fane. The believer is to think in harmony with God’s divine standard of holiness and on what is
morally clean and undefiled.Believers are to focus on whatever is lovely,“pleasing”or “amiable,”and
that which is highly regarded or thought well of. If they follow the truth of God proclaimed, along
with the example of that truth lived by Paul before them,“the God of peace will be with [them]”(v.
9). God is peace (Rom. 16:20; Eph. 2:14), makes peace with sinners through Christ (2 Cor. 5:18–20),
and gives perfect peace in trouble (v. 7).

OCTOBER 10 6 And burst the bonds.
Therefore a lion from the forest shall
slay them,
A wolf of the deserts shall destroy
Jeremiah 5:1–6:30
them;
5 “Run to and fro through the streets A leopard will watch over their cities.
Everyone who goes out from there
of Jerusalem;
See now and know; shall be torn in pieces,
And seek in her open places Because their transgressions are many;
If you can find a man, Their backslidings have increased.
If there is anyone who executes 7 “How shall I pardon you for this?
judgment, Your children have forsaken Me
Who seeks the truth, And sworn by those that are not gods.
And I will pardon her.
2 Though they say, ‘As the LORD lives,’ When I had fed them to the full,
Then they committed adultery
Surely they swear falsely.”
And assembled themselves by troops
3 O LORD, are not Your eyes on the in the harlots’ houses.
truth? 8 They were like well-fed lusty stallions;
You have stricken them, Every one neighed after his neighbor’s
But they have not grieved; wife.
You have consumed them, 9 Shall I not punish them for these things?”
But they have refused to receive says the LORD.
correction. “And shall I not avenge Myself on such
They have made their faces harder a nation as this?
than rock; 10 “Go up on her walls and destroy,
They have refused to return.
But do not make a complete end.
4 Therefore I said, “Surely these are Take away her branches,
poor. For they are not the LORD’s.
They are foolish; 11 For the house of Israel and the house
For they do not know the way of the of Judah
LORD, Have dealt very treacherously with
The judgment of their God. Me,” says the LORD.
5 I will go to the great men and speak to 12 They have lied about the LORD,
them, And said, “It is not He.
For they have known the way of the Neither will evil come upon us,
LORD, Nor shall we see sword or famine.
The judgment of their God.” 13 And the prophets become wind,
But these have altogether broken the For the word is not in them.
yoke Thus shall it be done to them.”

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