Daily Devotionals by Ardith Keef

       The Believer's rest, described in Hebrews as the Sabbath rest, does not come from a calming of the circumstance or a desired solution to the problem.
     The writer to the Hebrews makes it clear that this rest is not only available and available now, but it is possible to live in this Sabbath rest without regressing. That makes real problems for Christians who demand that God give them health, money, and the upper hand in all conflict.
     The Sabbath rest is found in Christ and nowhere else.
     What a beautiful term the writer uses, "enter into the rest". In a kingdom, a king reigns and the Kingdom of Heaven is not an exception - it is the standard. When we come under the reign of our Lord and King, we relinquish what we thought before were our rights.
     Now, because of the Word of God, we have learned that we do not have the rights we have always claimed - the right to be understood, the right to know what is to happen, the right to run our own lives, the right to say what we think. . .
     That is all balderdash now!  Faith learns to exercise the new rights we find in Christ - the right to count on the Everlasting Arms, the right to cry "Abba, Father", the right to cling to the Rock of Ages, the right to call on the Counselor, and an endless list of the believer's rights.
     The problem is, we are attacked by the things we see, but it is the things we don't see that we are supposed use to operate.  And that is why we must labor to enter into the rest.
      I suppose not many spend much time considering it, but there is a sweet, sweet rest the believer can enjoy.  Yes, there can be agony, but the sting is gone in this place of rest because this world's struggles begin to pale, and He begins to be more real to us than the nasty situation.
     It is the "secret place" of Psalm 91.
     Press for it. Pray for it. Expect it!
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