{"id":624,"date":"2007-12-06T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-12-06T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/contentfeeds\/2007\/12\/monday-day-10.html"},"modified":"2007-12-06T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2007-12-06T00:00:00","slug":"monday-day-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/contentfeeds\/2007\/12\/monday-day-10.html","title":{"rendered":"Something Better Day 11"},"content":{"rendered":"

Welcome to Nancy Guthrie’s guided journal “Hoping for Something Better,” which she based on her book of the same title<\/a> (Tyndale 2007).
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\nDay 11<\/strong>
\nThere is something better than trying to work our way into God\u2019s good graces. It is resting in what Christ has done for us.<\/i>
\nRead Hebrews 4:1-11.
\nGod does not intend for us to wear ourselves out with meaningless religious activity, filling ourselves with theological knowledge, working for him but never knowing what it is to enjoy knowing him and being known by him. Neither does he intend for us to go through this life on our own, unaware of him or estranged from him.
\nThere is something better. And it is not working harder or trying harder. It doesn\u2019t require more sacrifice on our part. All it requires is that we receive what he wants to give to us\u2014that we enter into what he has prepared for us.
\nGod is offering us something better . . . and that something better is rest. Real rest. Rest from the weariness of feeling that we can never measure up to God\u2019s standards, rest from trying to be good enough or do enough to earn God\u2019s favor. The something better is resting in what Christ has done for us, resting in knowing him and being known by him.
\nAccording to 4:2-3, how does a person enter God\u2019s rest?
\nHow do you reconcile the offer of rest with the command in 4:11 to \u201cmake every effort\u201d to enter that rest? How are both true in the life of a Christian?
\nIn what ways would you like to have more rest in your spiritual life?
\n–Nancy Guthrie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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