I want, in the simplest way possible, to answer the question: "How does a
man enter into that rest?" and to point out the simple steps that he takes,
all included in the one act of surrender and faith.
And the first step, I think, is this: that a man learns to say, "I believe,
heartily, there is rest in a life of faith." Israel passed through two
stages. This is beautifully expressed in the fifth of Deuteronomy: "He
brought us out, that He might bring us in"--two parts of God's work of
redemption--"He brought us out from Egypt, that He might bring us into
Canaan." And that is applicable to every believer. At your conversion, God
brought you out of Egypt, and the same almighty God is longing to bring you
into the Canaan life. You know how God brought the Israelites out, but they
would not let Him bring them in and they had to wander for forty years in
the wilderness--the type, alas! of so many Christians. God brings them out
in conversion, but they will not let Him bring them in into all that He has
prepared for them.
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