We need rest

Therefore, since the promise that we can enter into rest is still open, let’s be careful so that none of you will appear to miss it. ² We also had the good news preached to us, just as the Israelites did. However, the message they heard didn’t help them because they weren’t united in faith with the ones who listened to it. ³ We who have faith are entering the rest. As God said, And because of my anger I swore: “They will never enter into my rest!” And yet God’s works were completed at the foundation of the world. ⁴ Then somewhere he said this about the seventh day of creation: God rested on the seventh day from all his works. ⁵ But again, in the passage above, God said, They will never enter my rest! ⁶ Therefore, it’s left open for some to enter it, and the ones who had the good news preached to them before didn’t enter because of disobedience. ⁷ Just as it says in the passage above, God designates a certain day as “today,” when he says through David much later, Today, if you hear his voice, don’t have stubborn hearts. ⁸ If Joshua gave the Israelites rest, God wouldn’t have spoken about another day later on. ⁹ So you see that a sabbath rest is left open for God’s people. ¹⁰ The one who entered God’s rest also rested from his works, just as God rested from his own. ¹¹ Therefore, let’s make every effort to enter that rest so that no one will fall by following the same example of disobedience, ¹² because God’s word is living, active, and sharper than any two-edged sword. It penetrates to the point that it separates the soul from the spirit and the joints from the marrow. It’s able to judge the heart’s thoughts and intentions. ¹³ No creature is hidden from it, but rather everything is naked and exposed to the eyes of the one to whom we have to give an answer. (Hebrews 4:1-13, CEB)

Have you ever heard someone say they can’t take a day off because there is too much to do?

Some pastors are known to have said and say that they can’t take a day off because the devil doesn’t take a day off. Well if Satan is your role model, maybe you should rethink your role model!

God took a day off in creation. The being who created everything, took a day to rest.

If God can rest, then we have to rest. Rest is necessary for us to get to our fullest potential. And God will only let us in God’s rest when we show the faith of resting in God.

So let go of getting it all done and rest in the loving embrace of the creator of the universe and know you are loved.

Love People, Love God.