February  26     Thursday            Hebrews 4.1-10

4 That’s why, as long as that promise of entering God’s rest remains open to us, we should be careful that none of us seem to fall short ourselves. ² Those people in the wilderness heard God’s good news, just as we have heard it, but the message they heard didn’t do them any good since it wasn’t combined with faith. ³ We who believe are entering into salvation’s rest, as He said,That is why I swore in anger they would never enter salvation’s rest, even though God’s works were finished from the very creation of the world. ⁴ (For didn’t God say that on the seventh day of creation He rested from all His works?^{] 5} And doesn’t God say in the psalm that they would never enter into salvation’s rest?

⁶ So if God prepared a place of rest, and those who were given the good news didn’t enter because they chose disobedience over faith, then it remains open for us to enter. ⁷ Once again, God has fixed a day; and that day is “today,” as David said so much later when he wrote in the psalm quoted earlier:Today, if you listen to His voice, “Don’t harden your hearts.”

⁸ Now if Joshua had been able to lead those who followed him into God’s rest, would God then have spoken this way? ⁹ There still remains a place of rest, a true Sabbath, for the people of God ¹⁰ because those who enter into salvation’s rest lay down their labors in the same way that God entered into a Sabbath rest from His.