FAITH CAPSULE: Locate rest in the promise of God.
Hebrews 3
Our rest is in the promise of God not in the world’s solution.
Make the choice by engaging your rest solution in the presence of God. The presence of God is in the word of God. For example, the Israelites through their journey, in the wilderness, were led constantly by the presence of God. God’s presence was giving them direction and leadership through Moses which always resulted in rest when they obeyed and not disobeyed. All God did to lead was send His word through Moses and bible testified, “He made known His ways to Moses, His acts to the children of Israel.” (Psalm 103:7)
Without doubt, the presence of God is the word of God.
The word of God delivers. Wherever deliverance reigns, rest resides. Our days should be in the promise rest solution of the word not the wicked world solution.
Jesus alone is the rest solution for any one that will accept and allow the word to have its place in his/her life. Having rest is engaging the heart in the word of God by not engaging and maintaining a harden heart (turning against the word of God). The Psalmist talked about harden heart and Hebrews 3 also stated, “Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says: Today, if you will hear His voice, Do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion, In the day of trial in the wilderness, Where your fathers tested Me, tried Me, And saw My works forty years. Therefore I was angry with that generation, And said, ‘They always go astray in their heart, and they have not known My ways.’ So I swore in My wrath, They shall not enter my rest. (Hebrews 3:7-11)
Harden heart to the word of God is a rebellious way.
Harden heart in times of wilderness situation often turn man from God
Harden heart is a way of testing and trying a proven God instead of taking a rest in God.
Hardness of heart is what leads man astray (way of destruction).
Hardened heart leads and place man in the wrath of God.
In the journey of life, hearing the word; having a receptive heart and not having a hardened heart gives promise rest of God to man.
Having rest in the promise of God is profitable if heart gives no room for hardness.
Hebrew 4:1-3 states, “Therefore, since a promise remains of entering His rest, let us fear lest any of you seem to have come short of it. For indeed the gospel was preached to us as well as to them; but the word which they heard did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in those who heard it. For we who have believed do enter that rest…”
God cannot void His promise of rest for man that obeys instead of disobeying the word of God. As a believer, avoid all that makes man to become short of God’s promise of rest.
Prayer for today: Ask God for the grace of heart that centered diligently on His word.