Sunday November 13, 2022

Emergency, healthy rest !

Let us therefore hasten to enter into this rest so that no one falls by giving the same example of disobedience. Hebrews 4.11

We live in a world where everything is earned and paid for. We can therefore be easily inclined to think that our salvation before God is also merited. Resting from one's works may seem like laziness to some, especially if it is the work of another.

For the “ordinary” French people that we are, free admission is not of great obvious value ! However, God offers us free salvation and invites us to enter into his rest to be saved. This does not exclude that our salvation has a great price and is the result of an immense work : Jesus is the one who paid for our salvation, he suffered on the cross for our sins. To Him belongs all the credit for our salvation. To want to add our own sufferings and our merits would be blasphemous.

This is why God invites us to enter into the rest of faith in Jesus Christ, the perfect and only Savior. The world and the church need the lived testimony of truly rested Christians, Christians who are regularly renewed by this rest of God and not only by their leisure and free time.

Let us hasten to enter into the salutary and beneficial rest that God offers us. Whatever our present situation, it is urgent to take this step of trust.

Alain Monclair

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Proposed reading : Letter to the Hebrews, chapter 4.

Source (Live Today)