OPERATING OUT OF A PLACE OF REST

Jesus operated out of a place of God’s Rest, where all God’s people should be operating out of.  He did not address the social or political issues of his day for He did not see them as the answer to man’s needs.  In His Kingdom of God world view man’s need is to know God and be under His rule and reign.  He came to teach and demonstrate that world view to a world that was lost and desperately needed to hear, see, and accept all that God had done for them. There would be no social or political issues such as hunger, poverty, or war if human beings were operating as they were meant to.

Jesus’ message and mission was to reconcile all people to God; to bring them back to the place before the Fall of humanity, to where they would have been if they had not chosen to abandon God and be content to do their own thing.  (I just heard the words of Dr. Phil saying, “So how did that work out for you?) 

God created human beings in His image and likeness.  If we had been content with that we would be living as He meant us to live.  There would be no illness, no pain, no suffering, no wars, no hunger or thirst, and no death.  We would dwell with God in the Rest He created us to be in as His people.  We would know God, worship God, and enjoy His Presence forever.

God’s work of creation was finished.  Jesus’ work of redemption and reconciliation was finished.  We cannot add to it.  We cannot subtract from it.  It is complete.  Our work, according to God, is to believe in whom He has sent.  When that is finished we can enter into His Rest and from that place in His Presence we can enjoy and serve Him forever.