MUSINGS OF A MOUNTAIN MISSIONARY:
"THERE REMAINETH!"
WRITTEN BY VANCE HAVENER!
".....there remaineth yet very much land to be possessed." Joshua 13:1
"There remaineth therefore a rest to the people of God." Hebrews 4:9
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THE ISRAELITES HAD not possessed their possessions. They had crossed Jordan and entered the promised land but had not cleared it of its occupants and claimed what God had promised them. Now these things are our ensamples.
So many Christians are slack to make Gods provision their actual possession. Some live and die in the wilderness. Some stand on Jordan's stormy banks and cast a wishful eye to Canaan's fair and happy land where their possessions lie. Some cross Jordan and dwell in a corner when they could have a continent. The rest that remains to the children of God is the rest of faith that is ours when we cease from our own works and rest in God's finished work. It is not to be confused with heaven. We do not reach it by way of a graveyard. "Entered into rest" was not meant for an epitaph. No, we enter into Gods rest here and now.
Possessing abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness, we "reign in life by one, Jesus Christ" Romans 5:17. Let us follow our Joshua and claim what is ours. "There remaineth.....much land...." There remaineth....a rest...."
We can rest in a lot of things, but if you're not resting in the faith of the Lord, you're not resting at all!
Submitted by,
Dr. H. Tom Milam
Missionary to America!
Phil. 2:16
Missionary to America!
Phil. 2:16
