Being Successful Rest

Being Successful

Rest

What God the Father was doing was the

most important thing Jesus could do

Doing what God the Father is doing brings us into “Rest”

Obedience to do what God is doing will bring you rest

So what is God doing in your life?

How obedient are you to “His plans to prosper you

and give you a future and a hope?”

Disobedience will always bring unrest

 

So here is the Question…

Are you going to work for a paycheck

Or, because God wants you there?

The older I get the more I see the need for rest.

I never liked nap time as a child.

I did not like it when the sun went down or

Sundays after church and the afternoon meal.

How all that has changed with age.

Every parent knows when a child gets tired,

 they become disobedient.

It becomes something they can’t control.

Our disciplines become weak when we don’t get rest.

 Rest is a necessary part of living a full life.

The Scriptures tell us that even God

rested after six days of creation.

I think it is safe to say God also rested

each night after a day of creating.

  

Because God doesn’t say anything about resting each

night, makes the seventh day of rest more noteworthy.

Everything God created needs rest…

Farmers know that is true about the ground that we get our food from.

We also need rest.

Just as the scriptures say the seventh day is holy, a day of rest,

the scriptures also says six days shall a man work.

There is a ratio of six to one when it comes to work and rest.

Although this is well laid out in the Old Testament,

Jesus enlightens us to an even more important principle.

Jesus in John 5 heals a man and tells

him to take up his mat and walk.

Because this was on the Sabbath,

the Jewish leaders wanted to kill Him.

Jesus’ defense is…

  

“My Father is always at his work to

this very day, and I too am working.”

This statement is very important for us to understand

as Jesus is letting us know there is something more

 important than working to get ahead in life.

Jesus saw His work as doing what the Father was doing.

The truest meaning of like “father like son”.

In Hebrews 4, the meaning of “Rest” becomes clearer.

The rest God wants us to have can only come through “Obedience”.

“There remains, then, a Sabbath-rest for the people of God;
for anyone who enters God’s rest also rests from their works, just as God did from his. Let us, therefore, make every effort to enter that rest, so that no one will perish by following their example of disobedience.”
Maybe this is the question that will help us understand… Are you going to work for a paycheck, Or, because God wants you there? Our God who has begun a good work in you is working to complete it. Jesus in John 4 kept His eye on what God was doing. What God the Father was doing was the most important thing Jesus could do. Doing what God the Father is doing brings us into “Rest”. Obedience to do what God is doing will bring you rest. So what is God doing in your life? How obedient are you to His plans to prosper you and give you a future and a hope? Disobedience will always bring unrest.   So here is the Question…
Are you going to work for a paycheck,  Or, because God wants you there? Scripture Reading Genesis 2:2&3 By the seventh day         God had finished his work.     On the seventh day         he rested from all his work.     God blessed the seventh day.         He made it a Holy Day     Because on that day he rested from his work,         all the creating God had done. John 5:17 In his defense Jesus said to them, “My Father is always at his work to this very day, and I too am working.” Hebrews 4:1-11 1 Therefore, since the promise of entering his rest still stands, let us be careful that none of you be found to have fallen short of it. 2 For we also have had the good news proclaimed to us, just as they did; but the message they heard was of no value to them, because they did not share the faith of those who obeyed. 3 Now we who have believed enter that rest, just as God has said, “So I declared on oath in my anger, ‘They shall never enter my rest.’ ” And yet his works have been finished since the creation of the world. 4 For somewhere he has spoken about the seventh day in these words: “On the seventh day God rested from all his works.” 5 And again in the passage above he says, “They shall never enter my rest.” 6 Therefore since it still remains for some to enter that rest, and since those who formerly had the good news proclaimed to them did not go in because of their disobedience, 7 God again set a certain day, calling it “Today.” This he did when a long time later he spoke through David, as in the passage already quoted: “Today, if you hear his voice, do not harden your hearts.” 8 For if Joshua had given them rest, God would not have spoken later about another day. 9 There remains, then, a Sabbath-rest for the people of God; 10 for anyone who enters God’s rest also rests from their works, just as God did from his. 11 Let us, therefore, make every effort to enter that rest, so that no one will perish by following their example of disobedience.