"God's Masterpiece"

"And he brought them to the border of his sanctuary, even to this mountain, which his right hand had purchased." (Psalms 78:54) You know, sometimes it might take a little doing, but we usually will actually learn to listen sooner or later. All that God has done to provide for us a perfect solution to our horrible situation, and we seem to always try and mess it up by making it not so perfect. When we consider what it means to enter God's rest, it's actually a place where we are not burdened by rules, such as keeping this command or performing a certain task to comply with tradition. It's all about resting in God's perfect plan, in God's perfect place, and with no other concern but knowing God. There really is no other way to explain it, except to say that we surrender completely to Him. In this life that is hard, really hard for the average Christian to stay above water; we might start out walking on the water, but it's only a matter of time, and we are sunk, treading water just to stay in fellowship. There are three very important things we need to contain as part of our daily lives, communication with God, a hunger for His word, and the desire to fellowship with other believers. Communication with God is our number one priority, because it is our number one gift, that we can have the right to enter into fellowship with our Holy Father. We have been given this right by the fact that we have been made holy ourselves, by the blood of His Son, Jesus Christ. This purification that allows us to enter into fellowship with a Holy God has been illustrated for us throughout the word of God. Over and over, God has written, though the hands of men, by the power of the Holy Spirit, His perfect plan for our eternal salvation; of which, we must continue to have a hunger for, knowing full well that we can never get enough. There is more to His word that we do not know than what we think we know; the sooner we learn to understand that, the bigger our appetite gets for more of it. And the desire for fellowship with one another is not to be minimized; we need one another for encouragement and support. When we get off to ourselves we begin to either think to highly or lowly of ourselves, and can easily find ourselves out of fellowship with God; not that we are not trying to communicate, but the fellowship is lacking...
"So get rid of all evil behavior. Be done with all deceit, hypocrisy, jealousy, and all unkind speech. Like newborn babies, you must crave pure spiritual milk so that you can grow into a full experience of salvation. Cry out for this nourishment, now that you have had a taste of the Lord's kindness. You are coming to Christ, who is the living cornerstone of God's temple. He was rejected by people, but he was chosen by God for great honor. And you are living stones that God is building into his spiritual temple. What's more, you are his holy priests. Through the mediation of Jesus Christ, you offer spiritual sacrifices that please God." (1 Peter 2:1-5) NLT