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rest and He wants you to enter His rest and be as unconcerned as He
is. God is satisfied with the finished work of creation. God is
satisfied with the finished work of redemption.

I would always wonder, “Am I surrendered enough, am I humble
enough, am I sincere enough, do I have enough faith.” God said,
“Don’t go there.” What you need to know is that He is satisfied. He
accepts you. He loves you. He delights in you. He has your future
under control. When God allows me to start believing that He has
everything under control, I enter rest. His rest was being satisfied.
My rest is believing that He is satisfied.

What I would like to do now is take another step. It’s true that He’s
satisfied with everything that He has done in creation and
redemption but He’s not finished working. Philippians. 1:6, “For I
am confident of this very thing, that He who began a good work in
you will perfect it until the day of Christ Jesus.” 1 Thessalonians
5:24, “Faithful is He who calls you, and He also will bring it to
pass.” He’s still working. He’s not finished. 2 Corinthians 3:18,
“But we all, with unveiled face beholding as in a mirror the glory of
the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to
glory, just as from the Lord, the Spirit.” 1 John 3:2, “Beloved, now
we are children of God, and it has not appeared as yet what we shall
be. We know that, when He appears, we shall be like Him, because
we shall see Him just as He is.”

There is still a work in process. God is still conforming us to Jesus.
He won’t complete the work. In His mind and in His purpose it’s
already finished. Romans 8:30, “…and whom He predestined, these
He also called; and whom He called, these He also justified; and
whom He justified, these He also glorified.” Entering rest is not
only believing that everything that He has already done makes Him
happy but we must also believe that everything that He is doing right
now in our lives, He is satisfied with. If I start believing that, the
peace of God will flow over on all sides and at all times.