"Cause To Rest"

"This is my rest for ever: here will I dwell; for I have desired it." (Psalms 132:14)

  I was so tempted to start this verse with the word, 'For,' because it seemed to reinforce the previous verse, and complete the previous line of thought. But then again, God has a way of making His point without the need to make a rhyme or reason; it is just the way that He does it, take it or leave it. That is pretty much the point: God has established the place; if we want to meet Him, then there is the place we find Him; and He is eagerly willing to meet with us, in His established place. Of all the things we can try and figure out about God, the terms of where to enter into His rest are the things that He has made abundantly clear and easy to understand. The title for today's post as two very different meanings; one is that of making something to happen, the other is the reason that it works. In other words: God has established the place of rest, so we I have a place to enter into that rest, and we have the cause to rest, because we need it! Basically, it all comes down to one simple fact, that everything God does or allows to happen, for us or to us, is because He loves us. We might not get the perfect picture, or even see the need, or the reason why; but God's masterpiece involves more colors and detail then we could ever imagine. Our's is not to reason why! That's the beauty of His rest, that we don't need to worry about anything but loving Him; everything else will take care of itself. We have a cause to enter His rest, because He will cause us to rest. You know that crazy question people always ask: What came first, the chicken or the egg? The chicken did! God made the chicken to lay the egg! What a stupid question...

"For he is our peace, who hath made both one, and hath broken down the middle wall of partition between us; having abolished in his flesh the enmity, even the law of commandments contained in the ordinances; for to make in himself of twain one new man, so making peace; and that he might reconcile both unto God in one body be the cross, having slain the enmity thereby: and came and preached peace to you which were afar off, and to them that were nigh. For through him we both have access by one Spirit unto the Father." (Ephesians 2:14-18)