Rest for the People of God...

There remains therefore a rest for the people of God. 10 For he who has entered His rest has himself also ceased from his works as God did from His. 11 Let us therefore be diligent to enter that rest, lest anyone fall according to the same example of disobedience.—Hebrews 4:10-11

Let us, cling tenaciously to our faith.  Let us live absolutely trusting our precious Savior in everything and for everything. And not, the author of Hebrews tells us, JUST for ourselves, but so that no one will fall by following the wrong example we might set.  Beloved, how we live before our God MATTERS.  We are to live in obedience to the living and powerful word of God.  Jesus is the WORD who became flesh. He says this in Matthew 11:  

Come to Me, all you who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. 29 Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. 30 For My yoke is easy and My burden is light.

In gentle and lowly, Jesus is where our rest is found. May each of our lives point others to Him...not only with our words but our actions also.  May we listen to and follow the apostle Paul’s final commands in 1 Corinthians 16.  

Watch, stand fast in the faith, be brave, be strong. Let all that you do be done with love.

Take particular note of that last one. 

Let all that you do be done with love.

Without love, all our watching, all our bravery and strength will be empty, hollow and meaningless unless it is done in the meek and humble attitude of our Savior’s love.  

"Talk no more so very proudly;

Let no arrogance come from your mouth,

For the LORD is the God of knowledge;

And by Him actions are weighed.—1 Samuel 2:3

1 Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I have become sounding brass or a clanging cymbal.

2 And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.

3 And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned,fn but have not love, it profits me nothing.

4 Love suffers long and is kind; love does not envy; love does not parade itself, is not puffed up;

5 does not behave rudely, does not seek its own, is not provoked, thinks no evil;

6 does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth;

7 bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

8 Love never fails.—1 Corinthians 13:1-8