to enter God's rest - 1st week friday 2015

Today the letter to the Hebrews reminds us to strive into enter into God’s rest.  Originally God’s rest is the Promised Land.  To enter God’s rest therefore is to reach the goal and thus to rest from the journey.  In God’s rest struggles will finally cease, desires will be met, dreams will be fulfilled, and the goal would have been reached.

Today we are told to strive to enter into God’s rest.  It is a reminder that we have not yet reached the end, we have not yet reached the goal.  We are still struggling, many times exhaustively and still many times fruitlessly; our desires will still make us yearn, they still make us long for the elusive, and at times they make us angry when expectations are not met.  Many of our dreams are still dreams, and many times we feel bad about ourselves because we have all the dreams but do not have the resources to fulfil them, or the guts to have them completed.  This is our life today, the life of one who is still striving to enter into God’s rest.  

And so let us remember that God’s rest is still God’s rest, it is a rest that God alone can give us.  And so we pray that even if in this life we may not see our dreams fulfilled, may we be happy always with what we have; that even if our struggles will not yield their desired fruits, may we be content always with what we can do; that after we have given our all to reach our goal and yet come out wanting, may we always look forward to that day when God will bring all things to perfection.  May God allow us in time to enter into his rest.