Irene In Christ

As we read Heb 3 and 4, it is natural to ponder a few questions.  Can we enter into this rest of God? Sounds so mysterious, is it even possible? Source: Internet Perhaps it is worthwhile and helpful to ask the other question instead: "Why some could not enter God's rest?"  Heb 3:16-19 gives us a glimpse. For who, having heard, rebelled? Indeed, was it not all who came out of Egypt, led by Moses. Now with whom was He angry forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose corpses fell in the wilderness?  And to whom did He swear that they would not enter His rest, but to those who did not obey?  So we see that they could not enter in because of unbelief. The key words are in verse 18 and 19: "Did not obey" (disobedience) and "unbelief".  (Heb 4:6 also tells us that th ose to whom it was first preached did not enter because of disobedience. ) There is a process leading up to this unbelief and disobedience. It doesn't happen just like that. From He...

Source: Internet Rest.  A word that has eluded me for a long time.  Years ago, I set out to find out what God has to say about rest in the Bible. And I found myself repeatedly drawn back to this topic or truth ever since.  To say that I have felt as though I had been playing hide and seek with 'rest' would not be an understatement. Each time I felt like I had found her, I doubted if it really was 'rest' that I had found. And most of the time, I would lose her again not long after.  It wasn't so much that rest was hiding from me, rather it was that I didn't recognise her. Or didn't know how to keep/ retain her. Do you, perhaps, feel that way too sometime?  In the OT, a lot of time, when the Bible speaks of rest, it speaks about a place, a time or a state/condition of rest.  Usually signifying an absence of turmoil or adversary. Most of the time, the Hebrew word translated as rest were nuah, menuha, manoah, which means to rest, repose (verb) or resting place,...

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