Rest in His REST

Hello everyone,

Yesterday, I wrote on struggles and rest, which was a look at how Man today struggles over everything they do, whereas there was a standard that was established by the creator of the earth and Man who established principles which Man is meant to follow, but Man, due to his carelessness decided to take laws into his own hands and as a result of that has moved away from the principles established by God the creator and our Father. Moving away from the principles would tarnish the flow of what had been established by God as we can see everywhere around us, unless Man returns to God’s principles in order save the world, thus resting in His REST and this what I would write today.

Many people feel to please God is to follow the things like the ten commandments, becoming morally upright and things other things like that. What they fail to understand is that pleasing God is by the Spirit. Let me elaborate on that. The moment Man ate of the fruit of knowledge of good and evil, his spirit changed, and the spirit he obtained wasn’t the spirit of God, therefore no matter how much he observed the laws and become morally upright, it changed nothing until he gets a brand new spirit from God. In other words, his old spirit has to die in order to obtain a new Spirit, and this was what Jesus helped us achieve. The old spirit was a lineage issue which everyone under Adam was affected because we all are descendants of Adam. But Jesus isn’t a descendant of Adam, in other words, He is another Adam, thus the last Adam who has the Spirit of God, thus having the very life of God embedded in us, and the only way to attain this new life is to believe in Jesus, thus renouncing our old life, by receiving Jesus as our new life, this is where the true REST comes in.

As I said, we all believe struggling is the normal way of life, believing it is the only way to make heads way here on earth. The question now is, is that the original things you are meant to do as established by God. The truth is that the plans for ourselves aren’t blessed, rather it is God’s plans for our lives that had been blessed from the beginning. All we need to do is just to key into His plans for our lives, and His rest. So what is His rest?

Jesus said to His disciples in John 14:16-17, “And I will pray the Father, and He will give you another Helper, that He may abide with you forever—₁₇the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, believe it neither sees Him nor knows Him; but you know Him, for He dwells with you and will be in you.” The Holy Spirit is the new Spirit we receive when we receive Jesus as Lord. He becomes active and directs our lives to fall in line with God’s plans for our lives. The Holy Spirit is true and is never wrong, He knows the right thing to do and the right place and at the right time. As John 14:26 says, “But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in My name, He will teach you all things, and bring to your remembrance all things that I said to you.” What could be more restful than a person who knows all things and knows the end from the beginning, who directs and leads you, but this is not all that the rest is all about, there are more which I would explain to you tomorrow.

May the LORD bless you and keep you, make His face shine upon you. May the LORD be gracious to you and lift up His countenance upon you, and give you peace. AMEN.

                    

Why not accept Jesus today if you haven’t. Pray out loud, “Jesus, I confess that You are my Lord and Saviour. I believe in my heart that God raised You from the dead. By faith in Your Word, I receive salvation now. Thank You for saving me!” Congratulations, you’re born again, you are now brand new!

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