Lyrics - Rest That Remains by Smith Craig

Words by
Charles
Wesley/
Music by
Craig
Smith
Matthew 11:28-30
Lord
I believe in a rest that remains
To all
Thy people known
A rest where pure enjoyment reigns
And
Thou art loved alone
A rest where all our souls desire
Is fixed on the things above
Where doubt and pain and fear expire
Cast out by perfect love
Remove this hardness from my heart
This unbelief remove
To me the rest of faith impart
The sabbath of
Thy love
Safe in the way of life above
Death, earth and hell we rise
We find when perfected, perfected by love
Our long sought paradise
Come
O my
Saviour come away
Into my soul descend
No longer from
Thy creature stay
My author and my end
Come
Father,
Son and
Holy
Ghost
And seal we
Thine abode
Let all that
I am in
Thee be lost
Let all be lost in my
God"
And by the seventh day,
God completed
His work which
He had done and
Herested..."
Genesis 2:2"
There remains therefore a
Sabbath rest for the people of
God.
For theone who has entered
His rest has himself rested from his works as
Goddid from
His."
Hebrews 4:9,10"
Come to
Me all who are weary and heavy laden, and
I will give you rest."
Matthew 11:28"
Let us therefore be diligent to enter that rest, lest anyone fallthrough following the same example of disobedience (unbelief)."
Hebrews4:11
God's rest after the creation had nothing to do with tiredness.
It hadeverything to do with completion.
God had an eternity of energy andpower remaining, but
He rested because
His creation was complete.
Haveyou ever wondered what
God's plan was for the eighth day?
It was notmuch work; the work was complete.
God desired to walk and commune with
His creation in
His completed world that they might continue in
His resttogether.
Man interrupted that rest through disobedience and unbelief.
We, in ournatural state, have chosen our way rather than
God's.
We somehow havebeen deceived to believe that enough award of achievement, enoughsatisfaction of desire, and enough accumulation of possessions willallow us to reach a point of comfort in relaxation and rest.
But, thereis always more to accomplish, more to experience, and more to possess.
That is why we can find ourselves successful, yet unsatisfied,unfulfilled, and weary.
It is then that the
Savior gently invites us to come to
Him, walk with
Him, learn from
Him, and share in
His rest.
To yoke ourselves with
Jesus
Christ, we must lay down our burdens, surrender our motives, andrelinquish our methods. "
Not my will,
Lord, but
Thine!"
You must settlethat issue deep in your heart; once and for all.
Then your rest willbegin.
It will increase as you walk with
Him, learn from
Him, and applyyour faith.
To refuse to settle this is unbelief--the disobedience that rules outrest.
To lay aside the self-preferences of pride, lust, andcovetousness, and then trust in the promises of
God will surely yieldrest.
God's plan has never changed;
He has made provision through
His
Son for your completion, and with completion there is a rest thatremains.--
Steve
Swift

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