ENTERING GOD’S REST

Have you ever heard the expression, “When I rest, God works”? 

 “Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.  Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.  For my yoke is easy and my burden is light.”  Matthew 11:28-30 NIV

There remains, then, a Sabbath-rest for the people of God; for anyone who enters God’s rest also rests from their works, just as God did from his.  Hebrews 4:9-10 NIV

“What is it to rest then?  It means to cease from worry and fear.  When we walk by faith and not by sight, we are resting.   If we are worried, or frustrated we are not at rest and we are not in faith.  You see, when we are truly walking in the God kind of faith, we are so convinced that God will come through on His promises that we don’t worry about it.

A good example is of a young child.  If a child asks their parent if they can go to Disneyland and the parent responds, “Yes. Tomorrow we will go” the child has no doubt that it will happen.  It would be a very unusual situation for that child to then lay awake all night wondering if they will be going to Disneyland.  No, generally the child is so convinced, that they run around telling everyone they are going to Disneyland. Their parent said it, that settles it.  They trust what their parent has told them and with childlike faith they are fully persuaded about it. In their minds they are already there.

This is how God wants us to be with Him. This is faith.  We believe we receive, we thank Him and then we rest.  We don’t worry, we don’t fret, we are fully persuaded it is coming to pass.  We are filled with Joy and thank God in advance.”  (“Labor to Enter into His Rest” Spirit Food Christian Center)

Resting in God is more about trust than anything else.  It’s like a person who wants to float in the water.  If you want to float, you need to completely relax and trust that the water will support you.  If you begin to become afraid and tense up, you will not float but start sinking.  So it is in the spiritual realm.  You need to trust that God will support you and carry you through each and every day and every trial or tribulation that comes your way. 

 Psalm 91

¹ Whoever dwells in the shelter of the Most High
    will rest in the shadow of the Almighty.

² I will say of the Lord, “He is my refuge and my fortress,
    my God, in whom I trust.”

³ Surely he will save you
    from the fowler’s snare
    and from the deadly pestilence.
⁴ He will cover you with his feathers,
    and under his wings you will find refuge;
    his faithfulness will be your shield and rampart.
⁵ You will not fear the terror of night,
    nor the arrow that flies by day,
⁶ nor the pestilence that stalks in the darkness,
    nor the plague that destroys at midday.

    

Evening Prayer

Lord you are my strength…no matter the trial or suffering, You are here, bringing me strength and refreshing…I rest in You… (www.facebook.com/atruegospelm...)

Marcella Ward January 19, 2022

Author of “Stolen Identity: Plan of the Evil One”