I’m Glad That’s Over!
Slept in late this morning, I am never more weary, and never more happy than when I have had a struggle with God and lose! It seems as though we mortals would learn that “our arms are too short to box with God!” And yet, the struggle continues, we face a new challenge and know what the end is going to be, yet there is something in our inner man that keeps the fight up – we can’t settle that thing – we can’t rest.
One of my favorite scriptures is:
8[This mention of a rest was not a reference to their entering into Canaan.] For if Joshua had given them rest, He [God] would not speak afterward about another day.
9So then, there is still awaiting a full and complete Sabbath-rest reserved for the [true] people of God;
10For he who has once entered [God's] rest also has ceased from [the weariness and pain] of human labors, just as God rested from those labors peculiarly His own.
11Let us therefore be zealous and exert ourselves and strive diligently to enter that rest [of God, to know and experience it for ourselves], that no one may fall or perish by the same kind of unbelief and disobedience [into which those in the wilderness fell].
12For the Word that God speaks is alive and full of power [making it active, operative, energizing, and effective]; it is sharper than any two-edged sword, penetrating to the dividing line of the breath of life (soul) and [the immortal] spirit, and of joints and marrow [of the deepest parts of our nature], exposing and sifting and analyzing and judging the very thoughts and purposes of the heart.
13And not a creature exists that is concealed from His sight, but all things are open and exposed, naked and defenseless to the eyes of Him with Whom we have to do.
14Inasmuch then as we have a great High Priest Who has [already] ascended and passed through the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our confession [of faith in Him].
15For we do not have a High Priest Who is unable to understand and sympathize and have a shared feeling with our weaknesses and infirmities and liability to the assaults of temptation, but One Who has been tempted in every respect as we are, yet without sinning.
16Let us then fearlessly and confidently and boldly draw near to the throne of grace (the throne of God’s unmerited favor to us sinners), that we may receive mercy [for our failures] and find grace to help in good time for every need [appropriate help and well-timed help, coming just when we need it].
The scripture speaks for itself – Jesus, our High Priest, knows and understands our frailties, “He was tempted in every respect as we are,” – Yet, He did not sin. The life He lives in us gives us the overcoming ability to overcome sin – we CAN enter into God’s rest – and even after fighting with God – He opens His arms wide – He beckons us to come and sit on His lap – and there’s no better rest to enter into the arms of a loving and forgiving Daddy God!
Selah,
Maria
I am choosing to rest also, thank you Ma for such timely words, you are hitting places and ministering in places that are much needed for me in my life. You are truly a vessel of Honor being used by the Master.
I Love you and thank God for you.
your oldest
Amen, nothing like the Father’s touch.
“Let us therefore be zealous and exert ourselves and strive diligently to enter that rest” ~ every day, almost to the minute sometimes, purposing to walk this verse out. Thanks and amen for the word.