Monday Nov 15, 2021

Episode 36: Hebrews 4

Today's meditation is based on Hebrews 4 from the Passion Translation

The promise of entering into God’s rest is still for me today. So I am extremely careful to ensure that I embrace the fullness of that promise and don't fail to experience it. For I have heard the good news of deliverance, and I join my faith with the Word. I let the Word affect me deeply, and I do not doubt. For I know that when I believe, faith activates the promise and I experience the realm of confident rest!

God’s works have all been completed from the foundation of the world.

The fact remains that I still have the opportunity to enter into the faith-rest life and experience the fulfillment of the promise! For God still has ordained a day for me to enter into called “Today.” If only today I will listen to his voice and not harden my heart!

This promise of “rest” was not fulfilled when Joshua brought the children of Israel into the promised land, or God wouldn’t have spoken later of another “rest” yet to come. There is still a full and complete Sabbath-rest waiting for me to experience as a believer. As I enter into God’s faith-rest life I cease from my own works, just as God celebrates his finished works and rests in them. So then I am eager to experience this faith-rest life, and do not fall short by falling into doubt and unbelief.

I have the living Word of God, which is full of energy, like a two-mouthed sword. It penetrates to the very core of my being where soul and spirit, bone and marrow meet! It interprets and reveals the true thoughts and secret motives of my heart. I cannot hide my thoughts from God, for nothing that I do remains a secret, and nothing created is concealed, but everything is exposed and defenseless before his eyes, to whom I must render an account.

I cling in faith to all I know to be true. For I have a magnificent King-Priest, Jesus Christ, the Son of God, who rose into the heavenly realm for me, and now sympathizes with me in my frailty. He understands humanity, for as a man, my magnificent King-Priest was tempted in every way just as I am, and conquered sin. So now I draw near freely and boldly to where grace is enthroned, to receive mercy’s kiss and discover the grace I urgently need to strengthen me in my time of weakness.

Episode 36: Hebrews 4

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