Tuesday after the Seventeenth Sunday after Trinity Sunday
Posted on October 11, 2022 by under
Scripture: Hebrews 4:9-13 (NKJV)
4:9 There remains therefore a rest for the people of God. 10 For he who has entered His rest has himself also ceased from his works as God did from His.
11 Let us therefore be diligent to enter that rest, lest anyone fall according to the same example of disobedience. 12 For the word of God is living and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the division of soul and spirit, and of joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart. 13 And there is no creature hidden from His sight, but all things are naked and open to the eyes of Him to whom we must give account.
Devotion
“There remains therefore a rest for the people of God. For he who has entered His rest has himself also ceased from his works as God did from His. Let us therefore be diligent to enter that rest, lest anyone fall according to the same example of disobedience.”
Though Joshua led the children of Israel into Canaan, the land of promise, as David later testifies in Psalm 95, there yet remains a rest for the people of God–a place in God’s everlasting heavenly kingdom. God has provided that rest in His Son and His atoning sacrifice on the cross: “It is finished” (John 19:30).
We cannot enter that rest by our own works, but rather by ceasing our attempts to make ourselves acceptable to God and by trusting in the completed work of Christ for pardon, forgiveness, and the everlasting joys of heaven (Cf. Rom. 4:4-5). This, of course, is not a license to sin, leading to death, but rather the gift of God received through faith, giving us eternal rest.
Prayer: Lord, we beseech Thee, grant Thy people grace, to withstand the temptations of the devil, and with pure hearts and minds to follow Thee, the only God; through Jesus Christ, Thy Son, our Lord, Who liveth and reigneth with Thee, and the Holy Ghost, ever One God, world without end. Amen.
Scripture taken from the New King James Version®. Copyright © 1982 by Thomas Nelson. Used by permission. All rights reserved.
