Let's Come Together and Work Hard

The Promised Land was a land of rest where God promised the Israelite, His chosen people; and this Promised Land is actually an indication of our Lord Finished Work on the Cross.

Deuteronomy 6:10~11 When the LORD your God brings you into the land he swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, to give you—a land with large, flourishing cities you did not build, houses filled with all kinds of good things you did not provide, wells you did not dig, and vineyards and olive groves you did not plant—then when you eat and are satisfied.

However, the Israelite did not believe in God and they wandered in the wilderness for 40 years before their new generation actually entered into the Promised Land. They could not believe that God had given them a land full of riches to enjoy, a land which just flowed with His goodness, of which they did not have to work for. If only they could believe, they needed only 11 days to enter the Promised Land.

Deuteronomy 1:2 It takes eleven days to go from Horeb to Kadesh Barnea by the Mount Seir road.

Today, there are believers who still cannot believe that the work of Jesus is truly completed and finished. They are trying to help the Lord in completing a completed work; finishing a finished work, fighting for Jesus to defeat a defeated devil. They are always struggling to help the Lord and trying to behave like a Christian so as to deserve their healing, prosperity, success and victory from God. Instead of glorify the Lord; their self righteousness humiliated the Lord…

Our Abba Father wants us to stop trying and start trusting in His love for us. He wants us to stop working and struggling, and to start resting and believing in His grace towards us.

So today, if we are so concerned with our contribution through our work, let us work hard together to enter His rest. This is the only labour left for us to do i.e. labour to enter His rest. Every day, every moment, we are to labour to enter His rest. We are to believe in our Lord’s utterance, “It’s Finished!” at the Cross. By doing so, we are glorifying Him and at the same time, we stop humiliating Him!

Hebrews 4: 10~11 For anyone who enters God's rest also rests from his own work, just as God did from his. Let us, therefore, make every effort to enter that rest, so that no one will fall by following their example of disobedience.

Well, Let's come together and work hard to enter God’s rest and let us then, rest by sitting together with Christ at the right hand of our Abba Father. We will then run and not be weary, walk and not faint, because we are in the true Ark, Who carry us through this tempestuous waters of this would...