Our Great High Priest is Always at Rest!

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Have you ever given thought to rebellion birthing unrest in your life? I hadn't until I committed to study Hebrews in a new and fresh way. Like I said in my very first blog, decade of reading the word, purposely studying it and still, something fresh and new in a familiar book.

Hebrews 4 opens with a prologue if you will, regarding the Promised Rest of God, which is linked to the Promised Land. Quickly the author links rest to salvation and salvation to hope. Reassuring the Hebrew readers that they haven't missed the opportunity, unlike their ancestors who staved their arrival due to their hardness of heart (rebellion, unbelief, complaining).

The author reiterates that the promised rest is actually a current promise. Present tense. See many of us have a hard time relating to the book of Hebrews because we aren't. Hebrews, that is. Many of us are Gentiles and we face different obstacles than our Jewish siblings. Rebellion knows no boundaries. We are all susceptible to its folly.

Hebrews 4:10-11 AMP

10 For the one who has once entered His rest has also rested from [the weariness and pain of] his [human] labors, just as God rested from [those labors uniquely] His own. 11 Let us therefore make every effort to enter that rest [of God, to know and experience it for ourselves], so that no one will fall by followingthe same example of disobedience [as those who died in the wilderness].

Jesus was no stranger to rebellion. All temptation that we endure, Jesus endured and overcame (Hebrews 4:15) without sinning. Our Great High Priest is always at rest. He can't help but to exist from the place of perfect submission, obedience and love. He willingly gave up all His rights to better comprehend our frailty and be the most formidable one to lead us into Himself (Philippians 2:5-11 AMP).