Forth From His Praise

For he that is entered into his rest, he also hath ceased from his own works, as God did from his.

11 Let us labour therefore to enter into that rest, lest any man fall after the same example of unbelief.

12 For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.

13 Neither is there any creature that is not manifest in his sight: but all things are naked and opened unto the eyes of him with whom we have to do.

Notice the shift contained here in the text. Is it not hidden at first as the things of the kingdom so often are for those who are not seeking or otherwise unworthy. For did he not say he would be found of them all when they have sought him with their whole heart. So it remains then a whole-heartedness to this thing that thus does appear. Could this so often be in our service to God as the one thing lacked of the kingdom that makes up the transition as it goes from one life and into the next. Look with me for a moment if you will at the shift in perspective. Were I just to walk up on the text here where it starts without all following before or coming on after, the temptation would just be found to miss seeing the rest of the Lord. Does it not appear as at first that the Lord had sat down suddenly in the beginning just as one does who is weary and has now taken his rest. But how many of you know that our God grows not weary or tired for any much less in keeping his flock nor in seeking the lost and certainly not that the ages to come should cease from his praise. Is he not a good God that is thus brought forth from the Lord. In all your trouble and striving as in the times of Jacob once before where he wrestled and strove with the Lord, the same God is good I suppose. The same God though who has rested has just ceased from your sin. So too have your troubles lifted and your burdens have flown. Indeed they have all been vanished away in the breath of the Lord. You know, that breath that sounds ver much like a 'Lazarus come forth from your tomb' or the breath in the face of the soldiers that said an 'I am' in response to their search as backwards they fell. Yet the text makes it clear from unbelief they did so as did the rest. It sounds almost sacriligious to say so at first. But how many know the thus saith the Lord. For when our God has written the last letter and closed the last page as in the "it is finished" on the cross when he hung there and died it is still sufficient then too for the people. So too in the last letter of the law is it written as well that cursed is everyone who hangs upon the tree who so suffered and bled there for you and for me. That at the last in the halls of the just, near where the Lord has made up his throne at last my case should I plead that some rest I may find there indeed. It seems his power avails for all whether for the saint or the sinner, the faithful or the fallen then as well as the same blood which speaks for us all of the ages would tell. For those who believe not then to them is he faithful as time would soon tell. His Word too is not unlike the Author itself, the life and the giver the same, a better word than that of Abel who's slain. Indeed, with all things laid open and bare before whose sight he would tell as that of the quickness, power, glory, and the eternality of our Lord. Funny thing really is that not just what his word has engendered so being a body snatcher, soul stealing, spirit sharpener of a Word in truth such as this. For his Word is truth we are told and so knowing that in him can we trust always for all things and in all places wheresoever we happen to go not as though he has happened to have failed or left us below. At first we think of the two-edged sword not as anything much but you would be reminded of the serpent in the garden so long ago with his two-edged tongue would you not. Herein contained is a spiritual lesson, a word to the just. Imagine even the ill that was planned having worked out for the good in the end. The Word that was stolen became a weapon planted though tossed out in the world and disregarded by some to their hurt. Only a Father that is living and just could bring about such in his time so being the maker, Creator, and sustainer of such. Whether of beings created or angels which fell or man who rebelled, he makes all our days to ring with his praise. See, only our eternal Savior and Lord could bring about such in his time as one who makes all things beautiful out of anything thus. So then being laid bare in his sight is hardly the fearful thing that some have imagined who have gone astray and those who are waiting for judgement much later. But much rather herein is contained a comfort a word for the just that all things together do indeed work for his praise and that so too our good might appear. It seems we so too can trust him for this to be the good Father, the rewarder of men and all things created no matter what's happened or whether anything fell. For in trusting the heart of the Father, it requires much truly a knowledge of all things considered mixed in with the truth of the matter and the unfailing hope in his Word. Here our God will perform no matter how fallen, no matter how broken, no matter how too far gone off in the world. He is our good good Father who redeems the souls and lives of all men then as those who have been taken and thus have returned. Our God then is greater by far than any it seems. Then too can we trust in the heart of the Father as good so also his intents and his actions though often misunderstood time and again. As Scripture has said his Word is truth converting the simple. Let us then trust him with all of our days and so too to give him his praise. Somebody shout amen in his house even that of the Lord.