#338 Moving Toward Accountability? w/ Matt Meck

Hebrews 4:1-3

”Now the promise of entering into God’s rest is still for us today. So we must be extremely careful to ensure that we all embrace the fullness of that promise and not fail to experience it. For we have heard the good news of deliverance just as they did, yet they didn’t join their faith with the Word. Instead, what they heard didn’t affect them deeply, for they doubted. For those of us who believe, faith activates the promise and we experience the realm of confident rest! For he has said, “I was grieved with them and made a solemn oath, ‘They will not enter into my rest.’ ” God’s works have all been completed from the foundation of the world,“

We can rest in the confidence that all of the Lord’s work is already accomplished. He is not scurrying around reacting to the news and to phone calls. He’s not trying to put our lives together to meet some deadline like a last minute art project. He is not worried about anything. His promise of our deliverance and salvation is already done. It’s been done since the foundation of the world. Our job is to do what He’s called us to do and rest in confident faith. It’s our faith that activates the promise of salvation. It’s our faith that gives us confidence that He will do what He said He will do, because He’s already done it. Don’t miss your blessing because of unbelief. Don’t miss out on the opportunity to experience the fullness of the Lord’s salvation because of unbelief. 

James 1:6-8 says it this way speaking about our prayer - Just make sure you ask empowered by confident faith without doubting that you will receive. For the ambivalent person believes one minute and doubts the next. Being undecided makes you become like the rough seas driven and tossed by the wind. You’re up one minute and tossed down the next. When you are half-hearted and wavering it leaves you unstable. Can you really expect to receive anything from the Lord when you’re in that condition?

Let me encourage us all today to discipline our minds and refuse to waver or allow doubt to come in about the goodness and faithfulness and the finished work of the Lord in our lives.