Thursday | 11 December 2025
It is important to understand that a person ‘enters rest’ by receiving the inheritance that was promised to Abraham and to his Seed, Christ. Gal 3:16. This is what it means to be blessed. The blessing is obtained through obedience to the word of God.
We know that the generation of Israelites who had been delivered from their slavery in Egypt, failed to ‘enter rest’ because they hardened their hearts and were disobedient to God’s word spoken by His messengers, Moses, Joshua and Caleb. They denied the word of God because they feared the giants in the land. Paul, quoting from Psalm 45, reminded his readers of this fact, writing, ‘Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says: “Today, if you will hear His voice, do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion, in the day of trial in the wilderness, where your fathers tested Me, tried Me, and saw My works forty years. Therefore I was angry with that generation, and said, ‘They always go astray in their heart, and they have not known My ways.’ So I swore in My wrath, ‘They shall not enter My rest’.” ’ Heb 3:7‑11.
Having been born of God, we enter His rest and progressively obtain the promised blessing by walking on the pathway of salvation that Christ pioneered for us. We walk on this path through obedience to the word of Christ that is proclaimed by His messengers. Heb 5:9. Paul described an obedient believer’s progressive attainment of this blessing as ‘partaking of Christ’. Writing to the Hebrews, he said, ‘Exhort one another daily, while it is called “Today,” lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin. For we have become partakers of Christ if we hold the beginning of our confidence steadfast to the end.’ Heb 3:13‑14.
Further Study:
Hebrews 4
References:
Gal 3:16
Now to Abraham and his Seed were the promises made. He does not say, ‘And to seeds’, as of many, but as of one, ‘And to your Seed’, who is Christ.
Heb 3:7-11
Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says: ‘Today, if you will hear His voice, do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion, in the day of trial in the wilderness, where your fathers tested Me, tried Me, and saw My works forty years. Therefore, I was angry with that generation, and said, “They always go astray in their heart, and they have not known My ways.” So I swore in My wrath, “They shall not enter My rest.” ’
Heb 5:9
And having been perfected, He became the Author of eternal salvation to all who obey Him.
Heb 3:13-14
But exhort one another daily, while it is called ‘Today’, lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin. For we have become partakers of Christ if we hold the beginning of our confidence steadfast to the end.