Rest

Old Treasures on Tuesdays 👑

Get comfy, close your eyes, and let Holy Spirit do His beautiful thing for you today as you listen here:

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“There remains therefore a rest for the people of God. For he who has entered His rest has himself also ceased from his works as God did from His” (Heb. 4:9-10, NKJV).

There is real rest available for you. In fact, this life changing passage teaches us that “entering His rest” is something that God actively calls us to do. Indeed, the following verse directs us to make “every effort” to enter it. Do you hear that with your heart? Every effort! The ESV translation uses the term “strive” here – we are to actually “strive” to enter into God’s rest. What a vigorous meaning this phrase carries!

Clearly, Holy Spirit is passionate about this instruction.  We are to channel all of our focus into appropriating the inner rest that God has made accessible to us. Holy Spirit then gets even more emphatic, insisting that to do anything less would be disobedience. “Let us therefore strive to enter that rest, so that no one may fall by the same sort of disobedience” (v. 11, ESV).

We can conclude, then, that learning to enter and live inside of God’s rest is normative for real Christian living. He expects that His committed disciples will make this their goal and gradually, little by little, grow up into it.

What, then, is this place where He wants us to live? What does it mean to enter His rest? Continue reading Live, At Rest