Rest in the Lord

Thought for Today - April 27
Rest In The Lord
By: Robert A. Searles

     “Take heed brethren lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God.  But  exhort one another daily, while it is called today; lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin.” Hebrews 3: 12, 13

     Unbelief is evil, it is not of God.  When we believe not the word of God it is equivalent to departing from the living God.  God has  said, “lo I am with you always.  I will never leave you nor forsake you.”  If we refuse this promise, it is the same as turning our back on God.

     We need to encourage one another daily to believe God.  It is so easy, when we are alone in the world to be  deceived by Satan to believe his lies rather than  the truth of God.  Therefore, we need to exhort one another daily lest we be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin.  If we would only learn to believe and trust God in reality and not just in theory, we would truly experience the peace of God which passes all human understanding.

     We are made to be partakers of Christ.   God wants us to be overwhelmed with peace and joy, but we deprive ourselves, and cheat ourselves when we refuse to believe.  To enter into the rest of God for everything from salvation, to our daily needs, is a tranquil harbor in which to winter; but most of us are tossed to and fro  on the stormy seas of life because we do not enter into his  rest because of unbelief.

     “Let us therefore fear, lest a promise being left us of  entering into his rest, any of you should seem to come short of it.  For unto us was the gospel preached, as well as unto them: but the word preached did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in them that heard it.  For we which have believed do enter into rest, as he said, as I have sworn in my wrath, if they shall enter  into my rest: although the works were finished from the foundations of the world.” Hebrews 4: 1,2,3

     Rest in  the Lord.  Trust the everlasting arms of God to hold you up, for underneath are the everlasting arms.  Believe the word of God, first of all for salvation, then for all the other things that are needful and desirable, as God has promised to give us freely all things that we have need of: grace for living; grace for dying; food for the body, as well as food for the soul. He gave us a house (our body) to live  in here  on earth, and a mansion  in which to dwell in heaven. He came to earth that we might enjoy a more abundant life  here on earth, and eternal, everlasting life in the world  to come.

     Will not he who first of all gave us his only begotten son to die for us, give  us through him all things that are good and wonderful?  We have all these precious promises of God given to us, but unless we mix these words with faith to believe, they profit us nothing. Be a believer.  Believe not every doctrine that comes along, but believe the word of God, for the word of God has been tried and tested throughout the ages.  It has been tried in the fire of controversy and has come forth as pure gold.  By mixing the word of God with faith, the word becomes profitable to us, and by faith and believing we enter into God's eternal life and enjoy the wonderful bliss that no other creature can know - that of complete confidence and rest in the knowledge of the love  of God for us.

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