Don’t Forget His Work - Enter Into His Rest - Psalms 93-95

Psalms 95:7b-11 (ESV)

Today, if you hear his voice,

do not harden your hearts, as at Meribah,

as on the day at Massah in the wilderness,

when your fathers put me to the test

and put me to the proof, though they had seen my work.

For forty years I loathed that generation

and said, “They are a people who go astray in their heart,

and they have not known my ways.”

Therefore I swore in my wrath,

“They shall not enter my rest.”

The nation of Israel did not honor for what God had done for them.  He redeemed them from Egypt.  He saved them from Pharaoh’s army at the Red Sea.  He brought in quail from the sea to feed them in the desert.  He sent mana, every day, from heaven to nourish them.  He made sure their clothes and sandals lasted 40 years.  He made a rock in the desert burst forth with enough water to satisfy over a million people.   He brought them into Canaan and defeated all the nations around them.   He made the sun stand still just so they could conquer an enemy.   Yet, they fought with Him.  They disregarded Him.  The chased  after foreign idols.   They danced with wicked worship.   The result:  They shall not enter into my rest.    We, as believers, often live like them.  We complain about the path in front of us because it is not of our design.  We completely forget the path behind us that He has provided, protected, and paved.   Let us worship today what He has done for us and will yet do for us.   Then and only then will we enter into His rest.  Satan tempted Adam and Eve with what they didn’t have.   He created in them, through lies, a story about what they were missing, while the whole time they were standing in the Garden of Eden.  Satan likes to craft lies in our heads to make us lose sight of the blessings God has brought to our lives.