Let Us Labor to Rest<\/p>\n
\u201cLet us labour therefore to enter into that rest\u201d (Heb. 4:11).<\/p>\n
Seems to be a contradiction in terms, labor to rest; but in reality, it
\nis not. Let us eagerly strive and earnestly pursue to count all our
\nworks as \u201cdung and filthy rags\u201d and to \u201ccease from our own works,\u201d cease
\nfrom trusting ourselves, cease from going about to establish our own
\nrighteousness (Rom 10:3-4) and to rest, relax and trust the Lord Jesus
\nChrist, who accomplished all righteousness and all salvation for us
\n(Rom. 8:32; Col. 2:9-10; Phil. 3:7-9).<\/p>\n
This is impossible for any sinner to do apart from Almighty grace!
\nHowever, when the Lord is pleased to reveal Himself unto us, it is the
\ndelight of faith (Heb. 12:2), the joy of hope (II Thess. 2:16) and the
\nburning desire of love to come to Christ and rest in Him (I John 4:19).
\nHe said, \u201cCome unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I
\nwill give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am
\nmeek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls. For my
\nyoke is easy, and my burden is light.\u201d Oh Lord, give us grace to rest in
\nthee!<\/p>\n
~Tom Harding<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Let Us Labor to Rest \u201cLet us labour therefore to enter into that rest\u201d (Heb. 4:11). Seems to be a contradiction in terms, labor to rest; but in reality, it is not. Let us eagerly strive and earnestly pursue to count all our works as \u201cdung and filthy rags\u201d and to \u201ccease from our own […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[85,71,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-author-tom-harding","category-believers-rule-of-life","category-sabbath"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5221"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5221\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5222,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5221\/revisions\/5222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}