Enter His Rest

Hallelujah, there is a rest for those who are in Christ. No more turmoil. No more fear of storms or stress. Yet, so many people within the Christian faith have uncertainty, dissention, and a vain hope while never being free from the sin which so easily upsets their faith. They build their entire faith on their own work of repentance and prayer and not on the Christ they seemingly and so easily profess.

A few days ago, real early in the morning I woke up thinking of words straight out of the Old and New Testaments. “I will have mercy on whom I have mercy,” was prophesied by Moses (Exodus 33:19) and repeated by Paul (Romans 9:15).

I contemplated these words, but soon fell back to sleep. Later that morning I woke again with God’s Word, “My grace is sufficient for you.”

God’s mercy, like His grace and His salvation, belong to the Lord. These are His to give and no one can just freely take them. Who then can be saved? Who can ascend to the holy hill of God? Who then can have any assurance of being reconciled to God? Of eternal life? Of freedom from this body of sin?

Then, just a couple days later I woke up with, “Who then can enter My rest?”

The writer of Hebrews plainly states, “For we who have believed do enter that rest…” and again, “For he who has entered His rest has himself also ceased from his works as God did from His.”

Therefore, since God’s mercy is His to give, I must only believe; one, that He is God, and two, I can and must trust Him.

That rest which we find only in God comes first by believing and second by ceasing from my own works. Oh, the freedom this gives us by simply laying our life at His feet and allowing Christ to live in and through us. Without Christ animating EVERYTHING we do, say, or even think, how can we ever be free?

There is a rest and it comes only from believing that God is and that God is ALL. There is a rest which comes when we no longer toil to work. The rest is the freedom that He does the work, He gives the words, and He lives through us. Hallelujah.

Trust and obey, for there is no other way.

When we do and say only what Christ has to say and others reject it, they are not rejecting me and my words. Rather, it is the works and words of Christ Himself they reject.

Let God be true and every man a liar.

Ken Hammock