May the mumbling commence!
Want the perfect way to lose sleep? Want the guaranteed way of not living a life
centered on rest? Do you feel weary and
heavy laden? Want to know the antidote? Remember.
Remember what the Lord has done for you as you live your life day to
day. Read from Psalm One-hundred Six:
Yet how quickly they forgot
what he had done!
They wouldn't
wait for his counsel!
In the wilderness, their desires ran wild,
testing God's patience in that dry land.
So he gave them
what they asked for,
but he sent a
plague along with it. (Verses 13-15)
What happens when we forget God? We refuse to wait. Our desires rule over us. We test God by going to the latest craze so
that our desires might be met more quickly.
And God gives us what we ask for… and the plagues that
go along with it… the natural result of our excesses.
Do you doubt it?
Read from Hebrews chapter three:
Be careful then, dear brothers and sisters.
Make sure that your own hearts are not
evil and unbelieving, turning you away from the living God.
You must warn each other every day, as long as it is called
"today," so
that none of you will be deceived by sin and hardened against God. For if
we are faithful to the end, trusting God just as firmly as when we first
believed, we will share in all that belongs to Christ. But never forget the warning:
"Today you must listen to his voice.
Don't harden your hearts against him as
Israel did when they rebelled."
And who were those people who rebelled
against God, even though they heard his voice? Weren't they the ones Moses led
out of Egypt? And who made God angry for
forty years? Wasn't it the people who sinned, whose bodies fell in the
wilderness? And to whom was God speaking
when he vowed that they would never enter his place of rest? He was speaking to those who disobeyed him. So we see that they were not allowed to enter
his rest because of their unbelief. (Verses 12-19)
The key to rest from weary and burdened lives is to
remember what the Lord had done for us.
Remember and believe. Know that
God will continue to care for us.
Remember, believe, and obey.
If we do these things, we will rest well.
Enough mumbling for now…
Peace Out
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