Daily Word

For Joshua had given them rest, God would not have spoken of another day later on. So then, there remains a Sabbath rest for the people of God, for whoever has entered God’s rest has also rested from his works as God did from His. In verses 3-5 of this chapter we see another indication that the physical land of Canaan did not fulfill the promises of God’s rest. When David wrote, Israel long ago had entered Canaan under Joshua. If the land they entered under Joshua had fulfilled the promise of divine rest, the Psalm’s warning to David’s generation would have been pointless. The patriarchs’ hope was fixed on a better, heavenly country. There are similar arguments from the OT. The final (there remains a Sabbath) Sabbath celebration awaits God’s people in the future. The reference (rested from his people) is probably not conversion, in which we transfer trust from our work to Christ, but to our final deliverance from suffering, testing, and effort. Those who dire in the Lord “rest from their labors.” What does “Sabbath” mean to you, and out does it play out in your walk, relationship with Christ?