His Rest More Important that Works

"And the apostles gathered themselves together unto Jesus, and told him all things, both what they had done, and what they had taught.

"And he said unto them, Come ye yourselves apart into a desert place, and rest a while: for there were many coming and going, and they had no leisure so much as to eat.

"And they departed into a desert place by ship privately." (Mark 6: 30-32)

The disciples rejoiced in all that there were able to do.

Yet Jesus did not celebrate with them. Instead, He told them to rest.

We do nothing of ourselves. Christ lives in us (Colossians 1: 27), and therefore He is the one who works through us (Philippians 2: 12-13)

Paul made that very clear to the Corinthians:

"But by the grace of God I am what I am: and his grace which was bestowed upon me was not in vain; but I laboured more abundantly than they all: yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me." (1 Corinthians 15: 10)

The most important thing that we can do, then, is to rest:

"Let us therefore fear, lest, a promise being left us of entering into his rest, any of you should seem to come short of it." (Hebrews 4: 1)

and

"Let us labour therefore to enter into that rest, lest any man fall after the same example of unbelief." (Hebrews 4: 11)

Jesus is our rest (Matthew 11: 28) and the one work that we are called to do is to believe on Him (John 6: 29)

We do nothing of ourselves (John 15: 4-5). Jesus even told us not to rejoice about our works:

"Notwithstanding in this rejoice not, that the spirits are subject unto you; but rather rejoice, because your names are written in heaven." (Luke 10: 20)

Because our names our in heaven, we are made the righteousness of God in Christ (2 Corinthians 5: 21), and thus His life is able to live through us!