The Holiest of All By Andrew Murray

Iboltest of 2UI 147
XXX.
THE REST OF GOD.
IV.
4. For he hath said somewhere of the seventh day on this wise, And
God rested on the seventh day from all his works ;
5. And in this place again,
They shall not enter into my rest.
6. Seeing therefore it remaineth that some should enter thereinto, and
they to whom the good tidings were before preached failed to enter in be
cause of disobedience,
7. He again defineth a certain day, saying in David, after so long a time
To-day, as it hath been before said,
To-day if ye shall hear his voice,
Harden not your hearts.
8. For if Joshua had given them rest, he would not have spoken afterward
of another day.
WE speak, with Scripture, of the rest of faith. Faith, however,
only gives rest because it rests in God ;
it rests because it
allows God to do all ;
the rest is in God Himself. It is His
own divine rest into which we enter by faith. When the
Holy Ghost says, My rest, His rest, God rested, it teaches
us that it is God s own rest into which we enter, and which
we partake of. It is as faith sees that the creature was
destined to find its rest nowhere but in the Creator, and that
in the entire surrender to Him, to His will and His working, it
may have perfect rest, that it dares to cast itself upon God,
and have no care. It sees that God, the cause of all move
ment and change,
is
Himself the immovable and unchangeable