by Pastor Benjamin Davis
God's desire is for His children to experience His rest. His rest comes from obedience to His Word, His Spirit, and His leading in His people.
In the days of Moses, they sent spies into the land promised to them by God, but the majority of the spies came back with a bad report, saying,
There we saw the giants ; and we were like grasshoppers in our own sight, and so we were in their sight. (Num 13:33)
They spread their grasshopper mentality and fear to the rest of the congregation, and the result was disobedience to God's word through Moses.
Scripture's commentary on this event was that those people never entered God's rest that comes from obeying His Word. The good news is that we as believers can enter that rest today.
Therefore, since a promise remains of entering His rest, let us fear lest any of you seem to have come short of it. (Heb 4:1)
The key error they made in Numbers was fearing the giants in the land more than they feared the Lord. A healthy, reverential fear of God will make you unafraid of the giants that are out there because you believe in God's omnipotence (all-powerful), omniscience (all-knowing), and omnipresence (everywhere all the time). When you combine these attributes of God with His personal leading, it gives faith to obey, face the giants if necessary, and enter into His rest of obedience.
There is no rest in a grasshopper mentality, but there is the divine rest of God in hearing and obeying His voice to fulfill all His calling in our lives.
Let us therefore be diligent to enter that rest, lest anyone fall according to the same example of disobedience (of the children of Israel in Moses' day). (Heb 4:11)
Pastor Davis is Senior Pastor of Abundant Life Covenant Church
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