This truth has taken me, and perhaps many in the Body of Christ, a long time to rest in. The writer of Hebrews related to his readers that we must labor to enter the rest (Hebrews 4: 11)
Where are we supposed to rest, anyway? In His love:
"As the Father hath loved me, so have I loved you: continue ye in my love." (John 15: 9)
"Continue" means "abide" or "remain".
For too many of us, we think that resting in God's love is impractical. "Yes, yes, God loves me, but I have to do my part."
If we read the Bible, though, without any embellishment or resistance to His Truth, we accept that Jesus Christ is our life (John 14: 6), that our life is hidden in Christ (Colossians 3: 3). Christ live in us, too, the hope of glory (Colossians 1:27)
In his epistle to the Ephesians, Paul spells out who God is, what He has done for us, and how he wants every believer to receive the great revelation of God's love for them in Christ:
"14For this cause I bow my knees unto the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, 15Of whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named, 16That he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, to be strengthened with might by his Spirit in the inner man; 17That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith; that ye, being rooted and grounded in love, 18May be able to comprehend with all saints what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height; 19And to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fulness of God." (Ephesians 3: 14-19)
The most important thing that any believer can do is to grow in grace and knowledge of the Lord (2 Peter 3: 18).
John declared that God is love (John 4: 16), and God sent His Sons so that everyone of us would live through Him, not just for Him:
"In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him." (1 John 4: 9)
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