REST

If we do not enter God's  rest, we are not better than the Old Testament Israelited believers. Our Christian lives will be full of a wilderness experience, with a lot of activity but little progress. With a lot of energy expended but little movement. There will be a lot of perambulating and merry-go-rounding. O If we were to check on a tracking device, the movement pattern of the Israelites' wilderness journey, we might have been disgusted. It could have been worse than a Zig-zag. Yet their destination was not far away. This is the result of a "REST"less Christian life.

There was a promised land which symbolizes fruitfulness, but it couldn't be reached.

"He who has entered His Rest has himself also ceased from his own works as God did..." Hebrews 4:10

Here's the point of Rest - cease from your own works and embrace what God has worked for you. Before we DO, we find out what He has done, for we can never discard what He has done, And this is Christianity! It is not Inactivity but His Activity. He has met every condition already, blessing us with every spiritual blessing in Heavenly places; all that we may ever dare to aspire for spiritually. Our spiritual aspirations are in Christ's past. God has done everything already. Before it crossed your mind, be sure it crossed His mind long ago. He thought about it before you did, so that nothing will ever be found to be your initiative.

We have a banquet in Luke 14:17. It is our banquet. It has a caption - ALL THINGS ARE NOW READY. On this occasion, you come bare, the organizer has thought about everything and put them in place. If you like to use a silicon spoon, you would find that it too is available, for ALL THINGS are ready, and there is nothing not ready. "Nothing" is solicited from your end. Everything you might bring is a wasted effort, it seeks to defy the initiative of the organizer. It's His show and He has done all things perfectly. All things being equal, in the course of things, every guest will attest to the initiative of the organizer. And that is the story of Grace and Redemption. God must do it all, for He must have ALL THE GLORY.

© Pastor Faith Oluwagbesan
Lead Pastor, FGC CWB