What is Rest?

What is rest?  What is rest, except to be content?  What is to be content, except to find your home in the heavenly kingdom.  Jesus said, “Repent for the kingdom of God is at hand”.  If Jesus says the kingdom of God is near, then we need no further reason to think it is near.  The great realization of truth is that if kingdom of God is at hand, then we may partake as citizens of heaven.  To partake as citizens is to have the features which makes you  citizen.  This feature is holiness.  I was reminded by Richard S. Taylor today that to be with God is to be at ease in this world. (1)  Indeed it is the great joy of the Christian to live in another plane in the everyday life.

 

(1) The Right Conception of Sin