We Enter Into Rest

We Enter Into Rest

We enter into God’s rest in the days of our flesh by faith in God’s living, sharp words: words of life, words about life itself, words that divide between soul and spirit so that the blood of our self-life flows, which consequently kills us according to the flesh.

By faith in these many different words, we enter, step by step, into a constantly increasing rest in God. We rest from what has been judged and put to death. Thus we are in complete rest in life’s changing circumstances, trials, difficulties, adversities, and problems—from everything that has been put to death (separated). Of course this sin does not bother us anymore; it grumbles no more; it has been silenced forever. There is a rest and silence in the depths of the heart—dead calm.

The opposite is particularly easy to understand: namely, how things progress when the Word is not mixed with faith in the heart, when it is rejected, resulting in the person not judging himself and not letting the Word divide between soul and spirit when he excuses and justifies himself instead; that is, his self-life.

Then people cover it up, hide it, lock it up inside, and preserve it; they preserve it like canned food so that it can last a long time. This is how they preserve it in their inner man unto the constant unrest and bother to themselves.

Oh how sin makes people stupid! Dear friend! Be finished with this “canning factory!” Preserved mackerel in tomato sauce (for example) is nice. May it last a long time! It can be good to have. But preserved stubbornness, disobedience, vanity, conceit, greed, etc., is not good. Dump that “mackerel” into the sea, for it has become spoiled and creates constant unrest and trouble. We will not have peace and rest until soul is divided from spirit.

What a blessed rest in God!!!

May many partake of it in these days! All that is required is to take each single Word to heart. Each Word leads to perfect rest! Find examples yourself!!! Then you will understand it more easily and more thoroughly.