Rest...

"Therefore, let us fear if, while a promise remains of entering His rest, any one of you may seem to have come short of it."--Hebrews 4:1.  The Hebrew writer now begins his point that we have a rest that his promised if only we will be obedient and hold to what has been taught about Christ.  He will go on to say in Hebrews 4:11 that we need to be diligent to enter that rest.  Diligence requires work.  Work always comes before rest.  

Rest.  The image above should be a familiar one to all of us.  A sign pointing to a highway rest area.  I am one that tends to avoid these rest areas simply because I am determined to get to where I am going as soon as possible.  But the point of these rest areas is just that, rest.   Rest areas provide rest from the road trip. 

Rest.  Christianity is also compared to a road or a way in Matthew 7:13-14.  Christianity as you may already know is the narrow way and it too has a rest area.  But as the Hebrew writer says, we must be diligent or work to enter that rest.  

Rest.  Hebrews 4:6 will tell us that many fail to enter that rest because of disobedience. Furthermore, this promise is of no profit if it is not united with faith as stated in Hebrews 4:3.  

Rest.  I don't know what your attitude toward highway rest areas is but if your like me and determined to get where you are going without stopping except for fuel and food, take that same attitude and carry it over into your Christianity and your walk with  God.  Stop to fuel up and eat up by attending church services with the Lord's people and staying involved in the life of the church. 

Rest.  Realize that work comes before rest. Again, I don't know what your attitude is toward highway rest areas but my prayer is that we all are determined to get to heaven and the only stops we will make on the way there is for edification but also to try to bring others with us by carrying out the Great Commission as given in Matthew 28:19-20.  

Finally, a Christian's rest area is ahead and it may be closer than we think, if you have not obeyed the gospel, now is the time to do so.  Don't wait or you just might miss that rest area that's at the end of this highway we call life.  Which road are you on? The broad way with no rest area or the narrow way with a rest area at the end of it?

DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT! PRAY ABOUT IT! LOVE Y'ALL! GOD BLESS!