"Enter His Rest"

"Restore unto me the joy of Thy salvation; and uphold me with Thy free Spirit." (Psalms 51:12) No doubt we absolutely need the Holy Spirit to assist us in repenting and remaining holy, because without Him, we might not even pay much attention to God's word speaking into our hearts. It's kind of like being in church, and the message is almost as if the pastor was spying on your life, like, Who told him about me? But God knows all that there is to know about us, and we are never out of His reach, nor do we hide anything from His sight. To me, to truly enter into God's rest, requires a pure heart, one that is honest before God, and one that has come clean before Him; otherwise, without a pure heart, we are still trying to work something out between ourselves and the Lord. To truly know what His rest actually means requires real freedom, not just some sort of borrowed freedom that is here today and gone tomorrow, but the actual freedom that is given to us freely by God; in other words, God's freedom does not require a payment from us to be obtained, and if we try to purchase it, then it is not God's freedom that we are getting, because His is already bought and paid for by the blood of Jesus Christ upon the cross. This is no little deal with God, it is a major deal that requires we put all of out trust in the finished work of Christ; anything less, and we are trying to take some of the credit upon our selves; even the smallest portion of the credit, if we could claim anything, is our sin for which He died; other than that, we have noting else to claim, except that we are guilty of His death. Oddly enough, that is where we find "the joy of Thy salvation", is in the truth of what we have done and what we have not done; it's not that it gives us joy for what we have done, nor do we get joy in doing nothing; it is the simple fact that God loves us in spite of what we have done, and regardless of what we do for Him, He loves us and gave of Himself that we might be made free, freely... "Seeing then that we have a great high priest, that is passed into the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our profession. For we have not a high priest which cannot be touched with the feelings of our infirmities; but was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin. Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need." (Hebrews 4:14-16)