A Prayer for Enjoying the Sabbath Rest of the Gospel May 25, 2014 | Scotty Smith Therefore, while the promise of entering his rest still stands, let us fear lest any of you should seem to have failed to reach it. For good news came to us just as to them, but the message they heard did not benefit them, because they were not united by faith with those who listened. For we who have believed enter that rest . Heb. 4:1-3 So then, there remains a Sabbath rest for the people of God, for whoever has entered God’s rest has also rested from his works as God did from his. Let us therefore strive to enter that rest. Heb. 4:9-11 Heavenly Father, on this Lord’s Day morning, I rejoice in the magnificent paradox these Scriptures present: We’re to strive to enter your rest . What a glorious irony—work hard to rest well, stay restless till we rest fully, work hard to cease working. Yet no real surprise, because the gospel contradicts the fundamental way I’v
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