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Sunday, December 16, 2007
Sunday, December 2, 2007
REST
" SAY REST!"
“Rest,”
“That’s as close as you’re going to get to it until Jesus comes.”
Those echoing words of the Bible waving evangelist swept throughout the tent meeting that stormy night twenty years ago. Thunder and lightning encased his words and drove them right into the heart of the audience.
“There is no rest for the wicked,” he bellowed pointing his finger around the tent.
Everyone looked at his neighbor as if to say,
“It’s not me he’s pointing at.”
However, I felt he was taking direct aim at me. His words pierced my heart, because at the time I felt very wicked.
It was not until many years later that I stumbled across a passage in the book of Hebrews that Father God’s grace helped me to see with spiritual eyes.
“There remaineth therefore a rest to the people of God.”(Hebrews 4:9 KJV).
This passage was used to set me free from the condemnation that the evangelist had left me with all these years.
“You shall know the truth and the truth shall set you free.”
Oh! How sweet it is to enter into the rest of God. Life is a race of the swiftest, but sometimes along the course there needs to be periods of rest and relaxation, or you will surely falter and fall.
“Rest,”
“That’s as close as you’re going to get to it until Jesus comes.”
Those echoing words of the Bible waving evangelist swept throughout the tent meeting that stormy night twenty years ago. Thunder and lightning encased his words and drove them right into the heart of the audience.
“There is no rest for the wicked,” he bellowed pointing his finger around the tent.
Everyone looked at his neighbor as if to say,
“It’s not me he’s pointing at.”
However, I felt he was taking direct aim at me. His words pierced my heart, because at the time I felt very wicked.
It was not until many years later that I stumbled across a passage in the book of Hebrews that Father God’s grace helped me to see with spiritual eyes.
“There remaineth therefore a rest to the people of God.”(Hebrews 4:9 KJV).
This passage was used to set me free from the condemnation that the evangelist had left me with all these years.
“You shall know the truth and the truth shall set you free.”
Oh! How sweet it is to enter into the rest of God. Life is a race of the swiftest, but sometimes along the course there needs to be periods of rest and relaxation, or you will surely falter and fall.
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