A SABBATH REST

Entering into a sabbath rest is an attitude of rest that refreshes us. (Hebrews 4:9-11). It is a kind of rest where we cease from our own efforts and rely entirely on God. If you have accepted Jesus as your Lord and Saviour and are depending on Him alone for salvation, then you have rested from your own work. You are trusting in His finished work and you are experiencing the Sabbath rest that God wants you to have. You can live every day in the freedom and blessings of Christ's finished work as you tune in to His voice. In resting, we can hear His voice so much more clearly, God created the earth and all of its inhabitants in six days, then rested on the seventh day. During times of rest the Lord can clearly speak to us because we are unencumbered with all the details of life.

Let's enter into and remain in His rest. When we cease from our own efforts and depend on the work of Jesus, we rest.When we cease from dependence on our own activity and rest in dependence upon the activity of Jesus who dwells within, we rest. That is our Sabbath rest. It may not always be easy to find a place of refuge, a place away from the telephone, fax machine, computer, radio or television. But we can always find a Sabbath rest by being in the presence of God and responding to His presence in us as we endevour to hear His voice.