"To Be Blessed..." -2

"As soon as they hear of me, they shall obey me: the strangers shall submit themselves unto me." (Psalms 18:44) There are some things that need to be lived in order to properly understand what they mean, or to even begin to know how they are lived out in our daily lives; and even then, they are things that must be held onto in order to continue to properly understand them. For example; David's life was very much a type of picture of the coming King of Kings, who, for the sake of His kingdom was willing to sacrifice Himself for those that would be subject to Him. If you could have anything in the world, what would it be? Would you consider to be loved and admired as something that you would want most of all? That is the thing that comes with putting others first, and with making serving others more important than serving yourself. David's rein in Israel brought a peace to the kingdom and established a place where the heir to his throne did not need to be concerned with war, but could instead focus on worshipping God. As short lived as that was, it was a picture of what was done for us as subjects of the Lord's kingdom, where we do not need to fight battles anymore to secure the blessing of God, but need to just focus on worshipping Him. There is a place that is made available for us, by which we can actually enter into His rest; a rest that He has provided by the battle that He has won for us, and that He has made available to us by providing a kingdom for us to worship Him in. Being that as it has been established, there is only the problem of us finding it; something of a quest that is a battle of it's own; not because there are still battles to be fought out there, but the battle that we face is the one within ourselves, where we are constantly trying to hold onto His rest, instead of resting in Him... "Come unto Me all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take My yoke upon you, and learn of Me: for I and meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls. For My yoke is easy, and My burden is light." (Matthew 11:28-30)