MONDAY, March 2nd, 2009

Hey guys! I hope you had a great monday! Well, let's continue our study through the book of Hebrews!

Hebrews 4:1-8

1 Therefore, since a promise remains of entering His rest, let us fear lest any of you seem to have come short of it.
2 For indeed the gospel was preached to us as well as to them; but the word which they heard did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in those who heard it.
3 For we who have believed do enter that rest, as He has said: “ So I swore in My wrath, ‘ They shall not enter My rest, although the works were finished from the foundation of the world.
4 For He has spoken in a certain place of the seventh day in this way: “And God rested on the seventh day from all His works”;
5 and again in this place: “They shall not enter My rest.”
6 Since therefore it remains that some must enter it, and those to whom it was first preached did not enter because of disobedience,
7 again He designates a certain day, saying in David, “Today,” after such a long time, as it has been said: “ Today, if you will hear His voice, Do not harden your hearts.”
8 For if Joshua had given them rest, then He would not afterward have spoken of another day.

this is a little tricky, but there is definitely a great illustration in the midst... the focus here is clearly on rest. Something we all enjoy, some a little more than others...

Have you ever been tired? Last night, I was so tired! I do not remember being as tired as I was last night, I just wanted to go home and go straight to bed!I was craving rest! I did not want to stay up and watch tv, I did not want to go play a game, I did not even want to go on facebook and check my mobwars! I just wanted to go get some rest!

Well, the fact is there are times in life where we just need that rest, we need to catch up on rest... God himself gave us an example by resting (even when he did not need to) on the seventh day of creation! We need rest. I am getting tired just thinking about all of this rest...

I think one other point that could be added in here is this: Have you ever had trouble sleeping? Maybe you were stressed about something? Maybe you were gguilty about something, whatever the case is, many times, when we do not trust God or Obey God like we should, our sleep (or rest) life shows it.

Maybe you are not getting sleep like you need these days, well it is probably one of three things: 1. You are not disciplined enough to turn off the tv (or video game) and go to bed.
2. You are stressed about something that you should just trust God with.
3. You are guilty about something that you should ask forgiveness for.

Now, I know that there are possible other reasons, like health issues and stuff, but these are the main ones that I wanted to address today!

GO TO SLEEP!!