I FOUND MY REST

I have found that there is a difference in believing in and receiving God’s love. John says in his first epistle, “We have known and believed the love God has towards us.” (Towards us--can you imagine that?)

We may have known or heard about that love, but if we are still struggling and living in fear, we have demonstrated that we really have not yet learned to receive that love. There is a difference in believing and receiving.

God’s Word says that His perfect love casts out all fear because fear has torment. There is no torment in God’s love--none whatsoever! If one fears, then he has not yet truly learned to believe and rest in that love. True faith works by love--GOD’S LOVE.

When we learn to rest in that love--truly rest, all fears come to an end. There can be no fear because in that wonderful love that is God, fear does not exist. If one truly believed that God loved him, not just with his mind but in the very depths of his heart, he would come to the end of his worries.

God’s love does not have any fears and according to the Bible. God is Love. One might just as well face it. If he is a Christian and still living in fear, he has not yet truly found the comfort, peace, security, and contentment of God’s wonderful love.

What is God’s love? What is it like? What has the Father made it to be to us? If we have truly known, believed and received that love, what effect will it have upon our lives and our thinking?

Knowing, truly knowing and believing God’s love will mean the complete end of worry, fear, torment, and all the insecurities known to the flesh. God’s love is the end of all these things because God’s love is the whole reason for man’s existence. Man was made for one exclusive purpose--to believe, receive, and abide in the care and comfort of God’s love.

Man is the sole beneficiary of that love. God’s love has no other purpose. This love then is the complete end of all the uncertainties of the flesh. Through the power of the new birth, man enters into the realm of God’s perfect love. Through a new birth of the Spirit of God, man enters the realm of a perpetual inviolate kingdom of righteousness, peace, and joy.

When man sees--truly sees--the love of God and receives that love into his very heart of hearts, his worrying days are over. He will rest in a comfort, care, and security that reach far beyond his fondest dreams and imaginings. There will be no more fretting or fearful anticipation about tomorrow. He will enter God’s perfect rest and peace prepared for him by his Creator--a rest that existed before the foundations of the world.

He will cease from his struggles, worries, and fears, and enter into the per­fect love of God, there to dwell forever free in the knowledge of his Father’s wonderful care.  Amen

Warren D. Rogers