What is rest to you? Where do you find your Rest?
In six days God completes all creations and on the seventh day He rested! Adam too rested at Eden the perfect WORLD. For he too was made in the image and likeness of God. Eden crumbled when Satan decieves Eve to go beyond the purpose for which she own her existence. She is a rib of Adam and her role is to supplement him not to ripped him apart. Obedience to your Creator is the key to finding your Rest.
Satan is the opposing power to God. God is LIGHT, Satan is DARKNESS! God is LOVE, Satan is Hatred! God is LIFE, Satan is Death! God is GOOD and always forgiving. Satan is pride and always binding up, unforgiving: you are always a slave to him! Powerful as Satan is yet in the presence of GOD, Satan stands no chances! GOOD always triumphed! Darkness gives way to Light! Truth always triumphed!
And JESUS CHRIST is the promise or the answer to Satan’s overriding power over Adam the first man and his descendants. Doomed to Damnation in slavery, binded, bonded, blinded into the Kingdom of Satan and in darkness! Chased out of Eden into sin and shames. Ever chasing for rest in money, lustfulness, power, greed, hatred, selfishness, so on and on other than in God and his free Gift: JESUS CHRIST! One lies after another lies never finding Rest.
JESUS CHRIST is the only Way, the only Truth and the only LIFE! He is the living Bread that gives eternal life. He is the Rock from which gushes out living water that quench one’s thirst for ETERNITY. Moses cried out and manna rain downs from HEAVEN. He hit the Rock in anger and the water spring out giving relief to the thirsty Israelites in the wilderness.
Humanity is in sins and God is the last thing in his mind. A slave to Satan, with no hope of escape. Yet, GOD’S amazing LOVE comes into full play: He rained down JESUS CHRIST at the Cross to be our living Manna and Rock that gushes out living water so that we live in ETERNITY and thirst no more. To all those who believe: All sins and inequities not only forgiven but forgotten and remember no more! Hence, rising up triumphant over death and sin and resting at the right side of God in HEAVEN!
Rest is in JESUS CHRIST. He is our Rock and refuge! Where Jesus is, problems vanished! The sick got healed! The blind sees! The deaf hears! The dumb speaks! The lame not only walks but jumped! Where there is lacks, abundance is all one sees. Remembered the five loaves of bread and the two fishes that was in the boy’s hand. Blessed and transformed into feeding five thousands men and others. And still 12 baskets leftovers collected!
Are you still confused! Where JESUS CHRIST is even death vanishes. Remembered Lazarus. Four days late yet he lives! JESUS CHRIST lives and He want to free you from the EVIL and pervasive clutches of Satan and his kingdom of darkness.
To come to JESUS CHRIST is to acknowledge that you are a SINNER and alone you are helpless against the forces of Satan and his pervasive evils. In your weakness the loving voices of the HOLY SPIRIT will tell you “You are the beloved child of God in JESUS CHRIST. Made in HIS own image and likeness. Go in peace into the world with my strength. I am your God and you are my Son. Fear not be courageous. I am always with you!”
And going out as God’s Son means letting the HOLY SPIRIT guides you into living the LIFE Jesus Christ has lived in this WORLD. Loving and forgiving seven times seventy! God demonstrates his LOVE for us in this that while we were still deep in sins, Jesus Christ died for us at the Cross so that we live on and on in abundance!
To spread the GOOD NEWS of JESUS CHRIST in our LIFE is living it out in Christ. In the context of our Lamka Vangkhuo: The 3 Bills frightened us. Our Sulphates still lies unburried. God is with us victory is on the way we shouted but spreading nothing but hatred and mistrust!
Do not get me wrong. I love and pray for our Salphates and thier bereaved families. God is LOVE and he cares for all creations: Us, Nagas, Meiteis and all humanities all over the WORLD. To put/surrender all our sorrows and sufferings in the hand of JESUS CHRIST in Faith is the need of the hour. He knows our best and rest in his words and Truth is what living in JESUS CHRIST is all about. Untill and unless we understand this: Rest is the last thing that will comes to us.
Come to JESUS CHRIST and find your true REST AND PEACE!
Hebrews 4:1-13. Colossians 2.