Today

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.

– Hebrews 4:1

“It is done” – The magnificent words of Jesus that bring us straight to the feet of the cross where our Savior offered us Salvation and everything we need for life and godliness. God’s works have all been completed from the foundation of the world. Nothing has been left undone; He has prepared it all and conquered it all. Everything is handled. Nothing needs to be added. There is no rush, no need to strive; it’s done.
Everything is done – This is our inheritance in Christ and it belongs to us. 

So how do we access this reality where everything is done for us? Through faith! We can receive our inheritance and enter into rest.
Hebrews 3 talks about the people of Israel, whose journey to the Promised Land took them 40 years instead of 11 days. “It is clear that they could not enter into their inheritance because they wrapped their hearts in unbelief.” (Heb. 3:19)
It was unbelief that kept the people of Israel from entering the Promised Land and the rest God had promised there. By hardening their hearts to believing, the people of Israel disobeyed. 

Hebrews 4 explains the faith-rest life we are promised in Christ, one that we are called to experience if we only believe; the promise is void without faith.
Our entering into God’s rest depends on our faith. Our hearts were designed to believe. To believe is a choice founded on our will. Belief is higher than anything because it releases limitless power. 
Belief is not governed by our past experiences, nor is it a conclusion of the mind, but a choice of the heart. Most importantly, the Word of God thrives in belief.
Nothing is impossible for those who believe! “We who have believed enter that rest”. (Heb. 4:3) 

Our promise is the restful haven of salvation – Faith activates the promise and we experience the realm of confident rest! 
“As we enter into God’s faith-rest life we cease from our own works, just as God celebrates his finished works and rests in them.” (Heb. 4:10)
We don’t have to produce anything, for it all has been done and given to us. When we receive the Word of God and hide it in our hearts, we then become believers.
The greatest news is: “God still has ordained a day for us to enter into called “Today.”
(Heb. 4:7)

God offers rest, available for us, today. The time is not due, as long as it is, today.