The Word describes the security and confidence we can have in our salvation because of what Christ did for us in one word … rest. Whomever has entered into this rest has ceased from his own methods of becoming righteous before the Lord. So many labor under misconceptions about how to make God happy. Simply accepting Christ’s act of self-sacrifice on our behalf ushers us into this privileged realm of confidence and hope.

My mother is nearing the end of her earthly journey … she’s 90 and receiving hospice care. Yet, she is living in a rest and confidence that her ticket to heaven is paid for by Christ’s blood. She rests very well.

READ/LISTEN: Philemon; Hebrews 1-4