{"id":257,"date":"2013-12-14T16:55:13","date_gmt":"2013-12-14T16:55:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ambassadorsofchrist.info\/aoc\/?p=257"},"modified":"2013-12-14T16:55:13","modified_gmt":"2013-12-14T16:55:13","slug":"enter-into-his-rest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.log.ambassadorsofchrist.info\/aoc\/december\/enter-into-his-rest\/","title":{"rendered":"Enter into His Rest"},"content":{"rendered":"

The cares of this world; the kids, work, staying fit, the house, the car, the dog, cat, and everything else that revolves around us can get overwhelming at times causing tiredness and exhaustion. In fact, too many activities through out the day and drinking too much caffeinated drinks\u00a0will cause not\u00a0sleeping enough \u00a0at night. Getting enough rest is an innate practice that\u00a0inherited from our heavenly\u00a0Father. After six days of creation, the\u00a0bible says that God rested and throughout the scriptures\u00a0we find a point of resting where God insisted that his servant rested. \u00a0Research shows that we are leased productive when we are tired.\u00a0A time to rest is a time to get re-energized and God understands that we all need that moment and that’s why he created “his rest”.<\/p>\n

Hebrews 4:9-10<\/p>\n

9\u00a0<\/sup>There remaineth therefore a rest to the people of God.<\/p>\n

10\u00a0<\/sup>For he that is entered into his rest, he also hath ceased from his own works, as God did from his.<\/p>\n

A certain period of time or day should always be designated to relax<\/a>. Before God can use one person in his divine purpose he\/she needs to be energized or refreshed and that only comes through resting. Now, resting does not just mean sleeping; it is a state of inactivity, being at peace, worry free. God gave his people Israel the Sabbath day; a time to rest from their daily shores (Ex. 16:29). The people needed to always prepare for that day of rest, so on the sixth day they needed to work double to prepare for the day of rest. The people’s day of freedom from \u00a0physical labor became compromised, and so they began to do light things during the Sabbath, such as releasing the cattle so that\u00a0they could graze. Little did they understood that God was not pleased with the violation of that moment of quietness. Jesus understood this day of rest very well. In fact, the religious people took this day and burdened people with it and they did as they pleased. In Matthew 12 Jesus brings out the hypocrisy of the people when they refrain people from doing anything at all on the Sabbath day when he gave them the example if a sheep should run away and fall into a ditch. The Sabbath day was\u00a0supposed to be a time for people to relax and\u00a0it was okay to do good things (Mat. 12:10).<\/p>\n

God understands that we can never stand still; we always will be active. But, at the same time God understands that we need to have a time when we can release our burdens and rest in him. Jesus made this call to man “Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls.For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light” (Mat. 11:28-30). We can not become work-a-holics and pretend that we are alright. The fact is that the more we work without rest the more burdensome we become. God has a place of rest for his people (Is. 32:17-19), but his people need to stop and enter into his rest. The scriptures tell us to rest in the Lord (Ps. 37:7) and to wait on him. There is a designated day for us to rest in God and it is not just Sunday’s it is called “another day” (He. 4:8-9).<\/p>\n

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The cares of this world; the kids, work, staying fit, the house, the car, the dog, cat, and everything else that revolves around us can get overwhelming at times causing tiredness and exhaustion. In fact, too many activities through out the day and drinking too much caffeinated drinks\u00a0will cause not\u00a0sleeping enough \u00a0at night. Getting enough<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-december"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.log.ambassadorsofchrist.info\/aoc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.log.ambassadorsofchrist.info\/aoc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.log.ambassadorsofchrist.info\/aoc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.log.ambassadorsofchrist.info\/aoc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.log.ambassadorsofchrist.info\/aoc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.log.ambassadorsofchrist.info\/aoc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.log.ambassadorsofchrist.info\/aoc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.log.ambassadorsofchrist.info\/aoc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.log.ambassadorsofchrist.info\/aoc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}