Entering Real Rest

Hebrews 4
A Sabbath-Rest for the People of God

1Therefore, since the promise of entering his rest still stands, let us be careful that none of you be found to have fallen short of it. 2For we also have had the gospel preached to us, just as they did; but the message they heard was of no value to them, because those who heard did not combine it with faith. 3Now we who have believed enter that rest...

This passage tells that the only rest for the restless human soul of Bob Evans is to believe God's Word and do what it says and then I can enter His Sabbath rest. I am a "striver" by nature. I want to fix it myself. I cannot do that. Nothing I do, no amount of human effort or strife will accomplish what I need. I need rest. I need faith that God can handle it - that His way is better than my own. I need real rest. I can relax and watch TV or I can recharge and get some real rest and believe that God is here and I am in Him and He is in me. I need that kind of rest.

I think that is why Jesus said, "without me you can do nothing." We can't do life on own. But do we believe that? Really believe that we are useless without Him?

God says pride and its lack of belief in the Truth that we are nothing without God is the reason that God said, 'They shall never enter my rest.' "

And yet the work is done. God did it all. Jesus paid it all. He said, "it is finished." His work has been finished since the creation of the world. God has it all taken care of.

Yet I do it my own way and come up with my own solutions. I am one stubborn man. So recognizing that I must ask myself : What is God asking me to believe and I am not believing it...and by belief I mean acting on it. Belief and faith is only faith if it results in action.

Nuff Said