Dave Edlers Ramblings

We just got back from Arizona for a week of vacation in Spring training Mecca. What a place to get to go in the spring. Baseball and golf, what a way to rest and relax. But to my horror our vacation mates came back to the condo with a 1000 piece puzzle. 1000 pieces! Took everything off the coffee table and went to work. A puzzle! Life is a puzzle! We’re always trying to figure out how to make it work. To put things together so that every one is happy. Why? To rest and relax would you sit down and try to put a puzzle together? That is not rest or relaxing in any way.
In Joshua 21 at the end of the chapter it says this: “And the LORD gave them rest on every side, according to all that He had sworn to their fathers, and no one of all their enemies stood before them; the LORD gave all their enemies into their hand. Not one of the good promises which the LORD had made to the house of Israel failed; all came to pass.”
That is the kind of rest I need, we need. Rest from our enemies, on all sides. From outside and inside. Those forces of culture and life that beat us down. Those things from the inside that drive us away from the one we want to serve and bring honor to. Rest. On all sides. That sounds good. Did you catch the piece that you must cling to, “not one of the good promises”. This is a promise of God to His children. Those of us who have chosen to follow HIM. A PROMISE!