Human-Being or Human-Doing

Hebrews 4:10-11

10: For all who have entered into God’s rest have rested from their labors, just as God did after creating the world. 

11: So let us do our best to enter that rest. But if we disobey God, as the people of Israel did, we will fall. 

When I started to write today's devotion, I got writer's block. I could not figure out how to start this devotion. You don't know how many times I typed the first sentence only to delete it and start again. Then the Holy Spirit said, "uhh, why don't you rest." I chuckled a bit, but He made a point. Its just like when you are trying to remember the name of a band that played your favorite song, but for the life of you, you could not remember the name of the band? No matter how hard you were working your mind, you couldn't remember it? THEN, a few hours later, when you were in the kitchen chopping an onion, suddenly the name came to you! There is something physiological that happens when our mind is at rest, and God designed it this way for a purpose.

When we are at rest, that is when God can do His work! He put Adam to sleep so He could work and take the rib out of Him. Adam had to be at rest. When God needs to work in us, we need to be at rest. That is why it is so important to Him that we enter into His rest, so He can do His work in us. If we are constantly trying to figure things out, we do not allow God to help us...and He WANTS to help us.  When we don't enter into that rest, like the people of Israel, we will fail at whatever it is we are doing (Heb 4:11). I'm going to use a phrase from Joyce Meyer...we are human-BEINGS, not human-DOINGS. We need to be STILL, enter into His rest, and allow Him to do His work.