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希伯来书：4: 3-5：其实造物之工，从创世以来已经成全了。4论到第七日，有一处说：“到第七日， 神就歇了他一切的工。”5又有一处说：“他们断不可进入我的安息！”
这段描述把我们带回创世和伊甸园的时代。创世的每一天都以这样的话结束：“有晚上，有早晨。。。”由此我们知道上帝是如何在六个24小时之内创造了世界。但是在第七天，这句话没有出现。在第七天，上帝安息了，而且此后的每一天他继续在安息。那么这个“安息”到底是什么意思呢？
这意味着上帝停止造物之工，开始享受他的受造物。记住我们的上帝是与我们有关系的神，他他永远都是满有慈爱的神。他创造亚当和夏娃并不是为了有人陪他玩。他创造他们是为了和他们建立关系，只有我们的上帝才能完全的爱他们。当他们犯罪后，他和他们一同在伊甸园里行走。我想上帝每天都这样对待亚当和夏娃，直到他们被罪破坏。你能想像他们与神同行的画面吗，如同幼小的孩子与他们亲爱的父亲同行?就像亚当和夏娃与神同行一样高兴，神也很高兴与他们同行。因为上帝非常喜欢他的创造。
哦，我们多么期待这样的事情能再度发生！我们多么愿意亲眼见到上帝并和他一起行走！这就是进入上帝安息的意思。我们一定会的！当我们去天堂，我们会以我们的上帝和救主为乐，我们会亲眼见到他。他也会大大喜悦我们。我们会穿上他的义袍，我们的救主喜悦我们，就像新郎喜悦新娘。哦，天哪，那是何等喜乐啊！我们几乎等不及了。
我们一定要等吗？不。因为通过相信耶稣，我们现在就已经和上帝同行了。我们的上帝爱我们，喜悦我们。他渴望有一天我们能与他面对面，就像我们渴望见到他一样。我们每天在他的话语里与他同行。藉着信心我们日益了解他，他也使我们的信心日益增长。当我们和他同行的时候，对此生的忧虑消失了。良心的不安也不能压垮我们，因为我们经历的是无条件的爱。
祷告：父啊，亲爱的父，让我每一天都靠着信心和你在园中一起行走。用你的爱和应许环绕我，这样我可以走在你天堂的光中，而不是走在这个世界的黑暗里。我这样祷告是奉耶稣—你儿子—的名，藉着他你给了我做你儿女的名分。
Hebrews 4: And yet his works have been finished since the creation of the world. 4 For somewhere he has spoken about the seventh day in these words: “On the seventh day God rested from all his works.” 5 And again in the passage above he says, “They shall never enter my rest.”
These words take us back to creation and the Garden of Eden. Every day of creation ended with the words, “And there was evening and there was morning…” That’s how we know God created the world in six 24 hour days. However, on the seventh day, that phrase is not there. On the seventh day he rested, and he continued to rest every day after. So what does this “rest” really mean?
It means that God stopped creating and starting enjoying his creation. Remember that our God is relational God, who was a God of love from all eternity. He didn’t create Adam and Eve so that he would have someone to play with. He created them to have a relationship with them, to love them fully as only our God can love. When they sinned, he came to walk with them in the garden. I imagine that God did that every day with Adam and Eve, for as many days as there were before they spoiled it with sin. Can you imagine walking with God, as tender children walking with their dear father? And as excited as Adam and Eve must have been to walk with God, God was excited to walk with them. Because God took great delight in his creation.
Oh, how we long for that again! How we long to see God face to face and walk with him! This is what it means to enter God’s rest. And we will! When we are in heaven, we will delight in our God and our Savior and we will see him face to face. And he will take great delight in us. We will be dressed in the robes of his righteousness, and as a bridegroom delights in his bride, so our Savior God will delight in us. Oh my, what joy! We can hardly wait!
But do we have to wait? No, because even now we walk with God by faith in Jesus. Our God loves us and delights in us. He longs for that day when we will see him face to face, as much as we long to see him. We walk with him daily in his Word. We come to know him by faith more intimately as he grows our faith. The worries of this life fade away as we take that walk with him. The terrors of conscience cannot weigh us down as we experience is unconditional love.
Prayer: Father, dear Father, let me walk with you in the garden by faith each day. Surround me with your love and your promises so that I walk in your heavenly light and not the darkness of this world. I ask this in the name of Jesus, your Son, through whom you have adopted me as your dear child. Amen.