进入神的安息
希伯来书四章1至11节
1我们既蒙留下，有进入他安息的应许，就当畏惧，免得我们（原文是你们）中间或有人似乎是赶不上了。
2因为有福音传给我们，像传给他们一样；只是所听见的道与他们无益，因为他们没有信心与所听见的道调和。
3但我们已经相信的人得以进入那安息，正如神所说：我在怒中起誓说：他们断不可进入我的安息！其实造物之工，从创世以来已经成全了。
4论到第七日，有一处说，到第七日神就歇了他一切的工。
5又有一处说：他们断不可进入我的安息！
6既有必进安息的人，那先前听见福音的，因为不信从，不得进去。
7所以过了多年，就在大卫的书上，又限定一日，如以上所引的说：你们今日若听他的话，就不可硬着心。
8若是约书亚已叫他们享了安息，后来神就不再提别的日子了。
9这样看来，必另有一安息日的安息为神的子民存留。
10因为那进入安息的，乃是歇了自己的工，正如神歇了他的工一样。
11所以，我们务必竭力进入那安息，免得有人学那不信从的样子跌倒了。
信息分享
这是新约其中一章最重要的经文，可是，许多基督徒却只是轻轻略过。在这个步伐急促、繁忙疲乏的世代，还有其他信息，比进入神的安息和凡事交托在神的手中，更切合信徒需要吗？这章经文清楚指出，神的每个儿女都可进入神的安息。
究竟是甚么因素阻止我们得享安息呢？经文指出，就是因为我们怀疑和不信，也就是说，我们没有全心全意地相信神的良善和计划。
我们可能会说，我们试过为忧虑的事情祈祷，但始终得不到神所赐的平安。但是，我们要记着，是神亲自指出，我们是因为缺乏信心，所以才得不到祂的平安与不能进入祂的安息。经文引以色列人为例，说明他们不能进入安息，正是因为他们不相信祂。神警告我们不要效法他们。
这里所言的安息，究竟是指到甚么？它不是指到肉身的死亡，不是要进到天堂或进入迦南之后，才可以享受此安息。取而代之，它乃像完成工作后的安歇。它是我们借着耶稣基督与神相交之后，而得到的灵里安息。这是我们学习凡事信靠神之后，心灵所得到的平安与安息。
唯有我们相信基督已为我们作成一切，我们才可进入神为我们所预备的安息。真正的信心，是全心全意地信靠神的旨意，坚信我们的天父会带领我们经过一切的境遇。
唱诗：
主耶稣啊，愿我今天能借着你进入神的安息，因着你而得着真正的喜乐。
RESTING IN GOD
Hebrews 4:1-11
1 Therefore, since a promise remains of entering His rest, let us fear lest any of you seem to have come short of it.
2 For indeed the gospel was preached to us as well as to them; but the word which they heard did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in those who heard it.
3 For we who have believed do enter that rest, as He has said:
“So I swore in My wrath,
‘They shall not enter My rest,’”
although the works were finished from the foundation of the world.
4 For He has spoken in a certain place of the seventh day in this way: “And God rested on the seventh day from all His works”;
5 and again in this place: “They shall not enter My rest.”
6 Since therefore it remains that some must enter it, and those to whom it was first preached did not enter because of disobedience,
7 again He designates a certain day, saying in David, “Today,” after such a long time, as it has been said:
“Today, if you will hear His voice,
Do not harden your hearts.”
8 For if Joshua had given them rest, then He would not afterward have spoken of another day.
9 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.
Message
Here is one of the most important chapters in the New Testament, but it is generally unknown by many Christians. Is there any message more needed in these busy, wearying days than being able just to rest in God and trust everything to him? This chapter says plainly that there is a rest waiting for all of God's children.
What stops us from knowing more of that rest and peace? This chapter states that it is unbelief-that is, lack of positive faith in God himself, in his goodness and in his purposes.
But some of us have tried. We have prayed and yet, somehow we still don't know God's peace. Remember it is God who is saying that it is lack of faith that robs us of his peace and rest. He mentions Israel, and says that they could have known peace and rest if they had only believed him. God warns us not to follow in their footsteps.
What is this rest spoken of here? It is not physical death. It is not heaven. It is not the land of Canaan. It is like resting because a certain task has been completed. It is the spiritual rest shared by the soul that has come into fellowship with God through Jesus Christ. It is the peace that comes into our lives as we learn to trust in him.
It is the result of faith that accepts the finished work of Christ. Faith which accepts the will of God and trusts our heavenly Father in spite of every circumstance.
Here is a hymn for us for today.
Jesus I am resting, resting
In the joy of what thou art.