GOD’S REST!

Hebrews 4:1-4 TLB

Although God's promise still stands-his promise that all may enter his place of rest-we ought to tremble with fear because some of you may be on the verge of failing to get there after all. [2] For this wonderful news-the message that God wants to save us-has been given to us just as it was to those who lived in the time of Moses. But it didn't do them any good because they didn't believe it. They didn't mix it with faith. [3] For only we who believe God can enter into his place of rest. He has said, "I have sworn in my anger that those who don't believe me will never get in," even though he has been ready and waiting for them since the world began. [4] We know he is ready and waiting because it is written that God rested on the seventh day of creation, having finished all that he had planned to make.


The instruction and promise of rest are still as valid as when the Lord set out in Genesis 2:2-3. There is a rest that can only be enjoyed in God, both physically and spiritually, which will eventually culminate in the Sabbath rest of eternity.

God wants us to rest, not just the physical rest that is the state of quiet or repose, the cessation from motion or labour, and rest from mental exertion of the body or mind, but He also wants a spiritual rest for us even in this life.

God's heavenly rest, offered to the saints of old, continues today. Like some of them, we either refuse or fail to reach this rest. Jesus invites all who are burdened with sin and religious labour to come for rest. He invites sinners, wearied in the ways of iniquity, to come and receive speedy relief. Believers, tempted and oppressed by the carnal mind, may come to Christ and allow His blood to cleanse them from all unrighteousness and purify them from all sin.

The rest offered here will release the believer from the yoke of routine religion, making them humble and meek like Himself, while granting them rest and peace. God offers rest to the weary, tired, oppressed, and hopeless. Wherever you are right now that has become a burden and creates the spirit of fatigue can be refreshed in the Lord. He did not intend for us to care for ourselves, hence His invitation in Psalm 55:22 and 1 Peter 5:7 to cast our burdens, anxiety, fears, and whatnots on Him, so we can pick up His rest.

We are His own, the sheep of His pastures that He feeds and directs with His powerful hand, protecting us. But we must hear His voice. "Today," rightly used, you have no time to lose; tomorrow may be too late to enter the rest of God-salvation.

If we neglect and ignore His call and harden our hearts and ears to the sound of His voice, as the Israelites did and wandered in the wilderness for forty years, we too will face the consequences of not responding to the invitation for rest. Forty years is a long time in one’s life to wander around without a firm plan and rest. Unbelief, doubt, and disobedience can keep us in a wilderness of our making, either physically stagnant or spiritually and financially crippled, which makes it critical to seek and enter God’s rest.

Unfortunately, just as it was for the Israelites who disobeyed God by failing to completely trust His promises, we can fail to enter the rest that is eternal life, as they failed to enter the Promised Land. God’s rest is salvation! It is God’s rest into which all persons are encouraged to enter. The weekly day of rest is a reminder and a reflection of that rest. The rest of the Israelites in the Promised Land after their wilderness wanderings is a symbol of God’s eternal rest that His people will share.

The promise of rest refers to believers, especially as those to whom the promise was made failed to enter it. Their failure was not because the rest was unprepared, because it existed since the day that God finished His work of creation. This is the rest referenced in Genesis 2:2, God’s rest. God's rest is true, and it is His purpose that anyone who trusts and obeys Him shall enter that rest.

A foretaste of the rest is given in the inward rest that the believer's soul has in Christ, a rest which, once obtained, is never lost according to Revelation 3:12.

Do you desire God’s rest? Do not harden your heart; it’s not too late to enter God’s rest.

PRAYER: Father, thank you for providing rest for the weary. Help me to always take rest when necessary and find time to regroup to maximize my strength and anointing. In Jesus’ name, amen.

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