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Daily Bible Thought: Enter into God Rest

Heb.3:10 Therefore I was displeased with that generation, and said, 'They always err in their heart, but they didn't know my ways;' 3:11 as I swore in my wrath, 'They will not enter into my rest.'"{Psalm 95:7-11}

How do we rest? Simple enough question? We stop our work pull up a chair set down and rest, but is this the rest God speaks to here? Adam was in God's rest before sinning and being put out of the Garden of Eden. He rested from his personal works, and did God's works in the Garden; God's creation and works. Everything in paradise for Adam was supplied by God, nothing was lacking. Adam and his wife had a beautiful life in paradise if they put faith, and/or trusted God.

Isaiah 40:26 Lift up your eyes on high, and see who has created these, who brings out their army by number. He calls them all by name. by the greatness of his might, and because he is strong in power, Not one is lacking.

Jeremiah 23:4 I will set up shepherds over them, who shall feed them; and they shall fear no more, nor be dismayed, neither shall any be lacking, says Yahweh.

But they both failed in loving God, for without love of God there can be no trust, which is complete faith in love. Now the writer of Hebrews points to yet another time where God's people failed to enter into God's rest that of Israel going into a paradise promise land. They looked to flesh, the power within themselves to take the promise land, by their works, denying all that God had delivered them from in Egypt through God's own power. Now we as God's anointed face the same test, have we delivered ourselves into Christ our promise land?

Exodus 16:3 and the children of Israel said to them, "We wish that we had died by the hand of Yahweh in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the meat pots, when we ate our fill of bread, for you have brought us out into this wilderness, to kill this whole assembly with hunger."

Numbers 14:19 Pardon, Please, the iniquity of this people according to the greatness of your loving kindness, and according as you have forgiven this people, from Egypt even until now.

Numbers 14:22 because all those men who have seen my glory, and my signs, which I worked in Egypt and in the wilderness, yet have tempted me these ten times, and have not listened to my voice;

Has the power of our knowledge delivered us into Christ? Will a religion deliver us into Christ? Who of us has made ourselves clean by our works? Who of us, raised ourselves up into being seated with Christ above in Spirit and truth? Do we understand, what works mean? Do we understand what justification means? How can anyone of us leave the primary doctrines of Christ when we are still justifying our works, as though we have placed ourselves into Christ?

Titus 3:5 not by works of righteousness, which we did ourselves, but according to his mercy, he saved us, through the washing of regeneration and renewing by the Holy Spirit.

The power of death is found in us by sin, not life. We did not give ourselves the power of life, Christ Jesus. That was a gift given us not by our works, but God's love, the very love so many claiming to be God's people deny throughout the history of mankind for personal works, in justifying themselves as deserving of.

Colossians 1:13 who delivered us out of the power of darkness, and translated us into the Kingdom of the Son of his love;

Ephesians 3:20 Now to him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us.

Yes, our justifying that we have done something or will do something in study, meetings, good gifts, prophecy, having vision, or whatever, powerful works puts us into Christ is a lie. We have done nothing, we were placed in paradise, Christ, and we can be put out if we lack love for the undeserved gift of God's kindness. We must be marked with the seal of approval, love for God that cannot be separated from life. Christ.

1 John 4:19 We love Him, because he first loved us.

1 John 4:16 We know and have believed the love which God has for us. God is love, and he who remains in love remains in God, and God remains in him.

Daniel