Hearing "It Is Finished" We To Shall Rest!

                                           Hebrew 4:1
                   "Let us therefore fear, least, a promise being
                        left us of entering into his rest, any of
                          you should seem to come short of it"

        The good news of Canaan’s rest was preached to Israel but availed nothing, because the hearers were destitute of faith. They said, Can God? instead of, God can!  Does that phrase sound familiar! Christians today may not say, Can God?  However you might hear; You think God will? or I Hope God Will?  No matter how we put it, if we are doubting God it is destitute of faith, and God is out of the account!  Rest in God is total faith in God! .
        To all of us Christ offers rest, not in the other life only, but in this. ( Heb 4:3; Heb 4:11).  Rest from the weight of sin, from care and worry, from the load of daily anxiety of life.  The rest that arrives from handing all worries over to Christ, and receiving from Christ all we need.  Have we entered into that experience?  (In Heb 4:6, 11 "entered not in because of "unbelief," is here referring to "disobedience."
        If we disobey, we cannot believe; but when we believe we are sure to obey. (In Heb 4:10) we are directed to our risen Lord, who has finished the work of Redemption and rests, as God did when He pronounced Creation to be "very good." When we understand what He meant by "It is finished," we, too, shall rest.
        Amen!!

Reading: (Heb. 4:1-16)

                                     May God Bless You
                                      And Your Families

                                                Minister Robert A. Lail Sr.
                                                The Cross Life Ministry