Isaiah 26:3 You keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on you, because he trusts in you.
Perfect Peace
Like a river glorious is God’s perfect peace Over all victorious in its bright increase Perfect, yet it floweth fuller every day Perfect, yet it groweth deeper all the way Stayed upon Jehovah hearts are fully blest Finding as He promised, perfect peace and rest
The story of this hymn
When Frances Havergal was vacationing in the south of Wales, 1876, she caught a severe cold, accompa-nied by inflammation of the lungs. Hearing how ill she was, and that she might die, she replied, “If I am really going, it is too good to be true.” Her friends were amazed at how peacefully she received this information. She did survive that illness, and later that year she wrote the hymn “Like a River Glorious” in which she pointed to the source of her perfect peace: “Stayed upon Jehovah, hearts are fully blessed, finding, as He promised, perfect peace and rest.”Miss Havergal wrote to another hymn writer who had also written about peace. In her letter, Miss Havergal quoted Romans 5:1 “We have peace with God,” adding “It is yours already, purchased for you, made for you, sealed for you, pledged to you—by the word of the Father and the precious blood of Jesus.”