In the Zone

In the Zone of the Rest of God

By Keith Butler
"Let us therefore be zealous and exert ourselves and strive diligently to enter that rest [of God, to know and experience it for ourselves], that no one may fall or perish by the same kind of unbelief and disobedience [into which those in the wilderness fell]" (Heb. 4:11 AMP).

The rest of God deals with when you are in contrary circumstance. Your being able to operate in full peace and assurance, being able to complete the mission God has sent your way, not to be disquieted or upset or full of anxiety or worry or concern or trouble. In other words, you can sleep at night.
Christians ought to be able to sleep at night. Now, I'm not talking about, I mean, if you ate too much pizza at midnight. You aren't going to sleep tonight. But that's different than not sleeping because of worry, concern, or fear. There is a place of rest for anyone who is born again.


I want you to notice the Scripture tells us that the place of rest is not automatic (Heb. 4:1). That place of comfort, that place of peace, that place of assurance, that place of quietness must be labored to get into.


Notice what it said. Let us labor to enter into that rest. Now, that takes a responsibility of whether or not you walk in the place of rest that is reserved for you is not God's fault. And it's not God's problem. It's up to you.


So it said that we must labor to enter into that rest. That means we have to strive, we have to get with it. It says that we must be zealous and exert ourselves to enter into this place of rest. I like to call it the zone.


In athletics they talk about how a basketball player gets in a zone. And that is, when he comes to a place where nothing that he throws up misses. It seems to him that the basket is three feet wide and everything he throws up goes in.


Well, there is a zone for the people of God whereby they know that their faith is on the line and they know that God's Word is so, and it doesn't matter what the enemy seems to do. Whatever they do seems to come out all right when they are in the zone of the rest of God. There is a place of rest, but it's up to you to walk in it.




Scripture Reference: Psalm 95:3-11

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