Quit Rebelling Today

Hebrews 3:7 Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says: “Today, if you will hear His voice, 8 Do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion, In the day of trial in the wilderness,

I will be the first person to tell you that I am tired, but also admit to not giving into that weakness. In my just over 50 years, I have always worked my tail off since my early youth, my family instilled a thing called work ethic into me, (sadly one that is missing in today’s society). I have always played hard too, and my body is feeling the effects of the work and play I have put it through. My mind is seemingly slipping to a degree, and the strains of anxiety and depression have it in a continual weakened state; but I will fight all these wearies until I die, until I enter unto rest with the Lord. I will continually seek at the spine of my life, a daily rest in the Lord. The spine of the book of Hebrews is one of rest, resting in our faith for this time, and the time to come. It is one about the failures of faith, about a rebellious generation, about God’s chosen people who hardened their hearts.

Life is hard, and many times it gets harder when you become a Christian. Prosperity preachers that teach of getting all the worldly blessings as Christians are leading many astray. Satan is the ruler of this world and blesses those whom are focused upon it. This life is for a time, a short time in the grandeur of eternity, and it is one that prepares you for where you will spend eternity. You only get this one life, this one chance, to determine Heaven or Hell for your soul forever. Those Jews that God rescued from slavery in Egypt, they saw his miracles for 40 years, hardened their hearts continually, and most died and went to Hell in their rebellion. 9 When your fathers tested Me; They tried Me, though they saw My work. 10 For forty years I was grieved with that generation, And said, ‘It is a people who go astray in their hearts, And they do not know My ways.’ 11 So I swore in My wrath, ‘They shall not enter My rest.

God may only knock on the door of your heart one time. God may pursue you for years in your rebellion against him. God loves you so much he came and died for your sins, but, there can be in his sovereignty, a point of time he turns his back, the scariest point in this life for you. Romans 1:28 And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a debased mind, to do those things which are not fitting. You can be living in any level of rebellion, from a nonchalant attitude, to a false religious one, but your heart is in rebellion against a sacrificed life to the One true God. What if, today was that day that determined your eternity? What if you didn’t get to quit rebelling? What if your time is up, your plans failed, and you don’t get to come to God on your timetable? Those were my plans when I lived in rebellion; I thank God for his patience with, love for, and forgiveness of, me. He will do the exact same thing for you, today.