Thought For Today - August 16, 2023
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 foundation 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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