There is a rest

There remains therefore a rest for the people of God.  – Hebrews 4.9

I think we all get tired. This old life gets tiresome and all we want to do is to stop and rest. I like this study of the various rests here in Hebrews. I am not going to look at all of them, but just this concept that there is a rest for God’s people. 

What kind of rest are we talking about? We are talking about that wonderful, peaceful, amazing, eternal rest that we are going to see one day. One day all of the trials and pressure and deadlines and expectations are going to finally be over and we are going to finally get to take off our shoes, put the kettle on, and sit back and rest. 

Have you ever been really, really tired. I mean the kind of tired that all you want to do is get home, take of your shoes, kick back in your chair, have a cuppa tea, and then just relax? I love that feeling of rest. The work or the trip is done and now it is time to just take it easy. 

Well, that final day of rest is coming for the believer. No more clock to punch. No more deadlines to meet. No more pressures from the boss. No more fighting the world, the flesh, or the devil. No more sorrow and no more pain (including no more toothaches). No more cancer. No more death. 

Just blessed rest. What a day that will be.