In His Name Devotionals
THIS IS NOT YOUR REST
In His Name Devotionals
THIS IS NOT YOUR REST
“Arise ye, and depart; for this is not your rest: because it is polluted, it shall destroy you, even with a sore destruction.” (Micah 2:10)
Micah, who wrote some 700 years before the birth of Christ, was called the “people’s prophet.” Why? Because of his concern for the people. And, because of his concern, they listened to him. It was his message that reads, “Arise ye, and depart; for this is not your rest: because it is polluted, it shall destroy you, even with a sore destruction.”
This is an axiomatic truth that you probably do not often want to face. This world is not your rest. Too many seem to give only “lip service” to passages like, “I am a stranger in the earth: hide not thy commandments from me” (Psalm 119:19), or “Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth” (Colossians 3:2).
Even the graphic expressions like, “For my people have committed two evils; they have forsaken me, the fountain of living waters, and hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water” (Jeremiah 2:13), written by the prophet make little impact on us. It is most often too late when we realize this truth. It would be good if we could really, in sentiment, join David as he wrote, “O Lord, deliver my soul from the wicked,” “from men of the world which have their portion in this life...” (Psalm 17). In verse 15, he added, “As for me, I will behold Thy face in righteousness: I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with thy likeness.”
The prophet wrote, “…this is not your rest...” The apostle Paul wrote, “Wherefore, my beloved, as ye have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation...” (Philippians 2:12).
