Let devotional

#42 Strive to Enter the Rest

Posted: Tuesday, September 1st, 2020
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LET. Wielded by the Holy Spirit, this tiny word had a huge impact on Martha’s life, and the adventure can be yours, too, if you just LET God be GOD.

Devotional

Hebrews 4:ll
ESV Therefore let us strive to enter the rest.

AMP Let us therefore be zealous and exert ourselves and strive diligently to enter the rest of God, to know and experience it for ourselves.

The Greek meaning of ‘strive’ is “to do something with intense effort and motivation; earnest and diligent.”

Once I heard Devern Fromke speak in person. He spoke with the most gracious manner. He gave the truth but he didn’t pressure or beg, he was simply openhanded and you could take it or leave it.

I sensed he was free of ‘making it happen.’ Free of anxiety, free even of the responsibility for its effect. Only God could touch the spirit of the hearers. Only God could make the message understood. He offered his message in the most relaxed manner with seemingly no worry or effort. His restful peace was visible.

I believe he was a rare servant who had done the work to enter the rest of God.

Isn’t that a contradiction? Do the work to enter the rest?

Other Devotionals in Let Series

#72 The Discipline Needed to Run Your Race #71 The Power to Run Your Race #70 The Prize Worth Every Effort #69 The Precious Course Set Before Us #68 The Irresistible Power of Weakness #67 LET Christ Have It All #66 The Diabolical that Deftly and Cleverly Clings #65 To Walk in the Light of God #64 Be Free of Weights and Sins #62 The Stone on My Back #61 How Often Do We Just Listen to Jesus? #60 Never Hurried, Never Worried #59 Let Us Also Lay Aside Every Weight #58 The Cloud of Witnesses Watching #57 Strong Faith through Utter Weakness #56 Out of Frailty and Weakness #55 Faith and Only Faith Is What We Need #54 The Great Champions of Faith #53 The Work that Produces Faith and Pleases God #52 Faith Begins with Need #51 The Real Work #50 What Is the Work of God? #49 A New Work of Focus on God #48 The Practical God We Need to Know #47 An Eternal, Indefatigable Life #46 Living Bread that Gives Life #45 Bread of Life for the Hungry #44 Heaven's Bread of Life #43 Working Hard at the Wrong Things
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