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The Daily Word of Righteousness
Two Beginnings, #36
If thou turn away thy foot from the sabbath, from doing thy pleasure on my holy day; and call the sabbath a delight, the holy of the LORD, honourable; and shalt honour him, not doing thine own ways, nor finding thine own pleasure, nor speaking thine own words: (Isaiah 58:13)
The Day of Rest, as witnessed to by God and His Tabernacle, finds fulfillment as God wipes away all tears from the eyes of the members of the nations of the saved and there is no more death, nor sorrow, nor crying, nor any more pain; for the former things have passed away.
God made the physical universe in six days, and then God rested on the seventh day. The Jewish Sabbath portrays that eternal rest to which we have been called. When we are in the eternal rest of God we do not think our own thoughts, walk in our own ways, or perform our own deeds. There is no evening and morning of the seventh day. It is all one glorious day!
We realize all things have been finished since the creation of the world and our sole responsibility is to enter the finished work of God
To rest in God in this manner requires trust.
Behold, God is my salvation; I will trust, and not be afraid: for the Lord Jehovah is my strength and my song; he also is become my salvation. (Isaiah 12:2)
The twelfth chapter of the Book of Isaiah was sung by the priests during the observance of the feast of Tabernacles. The Jews, with their true instinct for the mind of God, rightly connected the twelfth of Isaiah with the feast of Tabernacles.
We have been given the authority and power. We have been "hired" and given the tools. The "job" is to be so totally reconciled to the Father that He in Christ can settle down in untroubled rest in us. This is the eternal Sabbath of God.
When we are fully accepting of the fact that we were born to be the dwelling place of God, and delight in our destiny and enter fully into it, then we have attained the mark, the first resurrection from the dead. We have grasped that for which we have been grasped.
Do you delight in the thought of being the eternal resting place of God in Christ? If so, tell God of your desire. Believe, obey, and persevere. God is more anxious that you should receive His Person than you are to receive Him. It is His good pleasure to give you the Kingdom.
God has made Christ to be the Alpha and Omega, the Beginning and the End. The beginning, the end, and all the programs and processes from the beginning to the end have been, are, and yet shall be wrought by the Father through Christ.
The work is perfect, performed in Divine love, and shall be brought to completion.
My beloved spake, and said unto me, Rise up, my love, my fair one, and come away. For, lo, the winter is past, the rain is over and gone; The flowers appear on the earth; the time of the singing of birds is come, and the voice of the turtle is heard in our land; The fig tree putteth forth her green figs, and the vines with the tender grape give a good smell. Arise, my love, my fair one, and come away. (Song of Solomon 2:10-13) (from Two Beginnings)