This week we are celebrating Labor Day. It’s a holiday that
should be about getting rest, but most fail to take advantage of the
opportunity. We know a great deal about working but very little about resting.
Some of what we do has the semblance of rest but not the significance. Let me
explain by sharing a conversation I had recently with my mother. I called her during
the morning hours and she and dad were in the middle of eating breakfast. She began to explain, “We sleep later some
mornings, and sometimes after we wake up we just lie in the bed and rest a
while.” She laughed and continued, “It’s something when you are in bed all
night and wake up and still have to rest awhile. That’s what happens when you get old I guess.”
Although humorous there is a message in
that story. Quite often after we have
gone through the routine of sleeping we find ourselves still in the need of rest.
The reason being we sleep because we have to we rest because we choose to. When
we compare this to our spiritual lives we recognize the same principle
applies. We enter into the experience of
salvation because we have to, but we rest in the promises and power of Christ
because we choose to. This is the message the writer of Hebrews was trying to
convey in Chapter four. We can spend long nights laboring in our salvation but
satisfaction will only come when we turn to resting in God’s finished work. Hopefully with age, comes the realization that
we need to choose more rest and less labor.
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