WE WHICH HAVE BELIEVED DO ENTER INTO REST
"There remaineth therefore a rest to the people of God." (Hebrews 4:9) It is very rewarding, after spending hours mowing and trimming the grass, edging around the walkways, and mulching the flower beds, to sit down with a cold drink in hand and rest from one's labors. It is good also, after feeling the stress and activity of one's job all year long, to just get away on vacation and relax for a time. Such times of rest are all the sweeter to us because we feel that we have earned them by our labors. God has a different rest that He has promised to His people, though. In the Old Testament (under the old covenant), God commanded the Israelites to cease from all their work and rest every seventh day of the week. "But the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates: for i