Blogging Bethel V.1

Wow. I’m beat.

On tap for today was the following:

1. Perfect Active & Perfect Middle/Passive Verbs
2. Greek Participles
3. Basketball (followed by a backache)
4. PB&J for dinner
5. Study more Greek (Mounce, Chapter 24)
6. Realizing that I’m exhausted.
7. Bed (soon.)

There is a verse that has been swimming past my view finder for quite some time now. An amazing verse from Hebrews 4, verse 11:

Let us, therefore, make every effort to enter that rest, so that no one will perish by following their example of disobedience.

I need to rest. Badly. I need God’s rest, the rest he promises me and you. Badly.

I just got done listening to a timely message by Brad Jorgensen. It was on this very topic… Rest. (For all things good and holy, you must listen to this message – find it here.) The theme of today’s chapel at Bethel was, you guessed it, rest. People are talking about it, everywhere and in every way.

Where do you need rest? Is your job taking you to the limit? Is insomnia claiming the late hours of the night that God intended to recharge your body? Is guilt gnawing at the back of your brain like a buzzing July june bug? In the words of a modern day poet, do you “feel so tired but you just can’t sleep?”

Maybe it’s time to rest. It’s time to enter into the rest God promises you. And note the word, “enter”. We “enter” into God’s rest – not “strive” or “travail” or “force” or “push” or “strain.”

Pray for me to rest, and I’ll pray the same for you. Peace.