SPIRITUAL
DIARY
Date: 01-28-03
My
Worship Time Focus: Spiritual Rest is Available
Bible
Reading & Meditation Reference: Hebrews 4:4,5
1. Message of the verse: “For He has spoken in a certain place of the
seventh day in this way: ‘And God rested on the seventh day from all His
works’; and again in this place: ‘They shall not enter My rest.’” (NKJV)
“We know it is ready because the Scriptures mention the seventh day,
saying, ‘On the seventh day God rested from all His work.’ But in the other passage God said, ‘They will
never enter my place of rest.’” (NLT)
The
thought just came to me about this passage in a way that I had not looked at it
before, and that is that God rested from His work after creation because His
work was don and not because He was tired.
I can rest from salvation because Jesus Christ has done all the work for
me on the cross of Calvary. I can do
nothing at all to gain salvation and therefore once I have been saved I can
rest in that wonderful salvation that God has given to me. I can also rest in knowing that God is the
One who is can show me the right way to live out my life, and not doing things
in my own effort. In verse five the
writer again quotes from Psalm 95 and in this verse he quotes verse eleven. Those who could not enter the rest are the
ones who came out of Egypt in unbelief of going into the promised land.
2. Spiritual meaning for my life today: When I take God at His Word and by faith
believe what He has said, even though at times I do not understand all that is
involved, I too can enter His rest.
The Word of God was convicting to me today as I read about
not entering His rest that is available to me, which means that it also
challenged me too.
My Steps
of Faith Today: To put shoe
leather on the things that I have read about in His Word, to apply those things
to my life so I can enter His rest.
Memory verse for the week:
Philippians 2:5
Your attitude should be the same as that of Christ Jesus.
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