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One of the greatest promises found in the Bible is when God said to Moses and the people of Israel in Exodus 33, “My presence shall go with you, and I will give you rest.” This meant so much to Moses that he responded, “If Your presence does not go with us, do not lead us from this place.”
The presence of God meant more than anything to Moses. It’s as though he was saying, “I do not want that land You promised unless You are with us in it.” God said the land of Israel would be flowing with milk and honey. Moses was saying, “I don’t want the blessings of the milk or the blessings of honey unless you are with us in it.”
But what does it mean when God says, “and I will give you rest”? That word contains some of the deepest spiritual promises God has ever given.
What does it mean to rest? It means to cease striving, to cease from self-effort and self-reliance. It means to rely on what God has done and will do in your behalf. It has everything to do with faith. When you find your rest in God, you will know what it means to have faith. And when it comes to your relationship to God, faith is everything. “Without faith, it is impossible to please God.”
In Hebrews 4, the writer reminds them of Israel’s famous failures. They tested God in the wilderness and hardened their hearts. It was lack of faith. It was a turning point in the history of Israel, and it wasn’t good.
Because of that lack of faith, because they hardened their hearts and wouldn’t trust by taking God at His word, that entire generation died in the wilderness. They did not enter the land God had promised them.
But more than that, they did not enter His rest. The promise of rest is the promise not just of eternal life, it has everything to do with the victorious life God intends for you right here and right now.
I. When God Speaks Soften Your Heart
Verse 7 - God says to us today, just like David said to his generation, just like God said to Israel in the desert, “If you hear His voice, do not harden your hearts.”
Jesus gave a parable that in the same way that he farmer sows the seed and it lands on different types of soils, God sends His word and it lands on different types of hearts.
Those with hard hearts cannot receive the word of God and it bears no fruit.
When Israel was captive in Egypt, God heard their cries and sent Moses to confront Pharaoh, “Jehovah, the God of Israel, says to you, ‘Let my people go.’”
Exodus 5:2, But Pharaoh said, “Who is Jehovah that I should obey His voice to let Israel go? I do not know the Lord, and besides, I will not let Israel go.”
But Israel did know the Lord, they were His chosen people. He revealed Himself to them. He spoke through Moses, he delivered Israel with a mighty hand and an outstretched arm. He destroyed the armies of Egypt and delivered Israel through the Red Sea.
God did a miracle every day by providing manna in the desert. And though it tasted like Krispy Kreme doughnuts, it was healthy and nutritious.
But they hardened their hearts and grumbled against God, “Why did we ever leave Egypt? We remember the fish which we used to eat in Egypt, the cucumbers and the melons and the leaks and the onions and garlic. But now our appetite is gone. There is nothing at all except this manna.”
They hardened their hearts and would not hear His voice. To teach them a lesson, God gave them what they wanted, He gave them quail, but He gave them so much it was running out their nostrils…
Numbers 11:19-20, “You shall eat, not one day, not two days, nor five days, nor 10 days, nor 20 days, but a whole month, until it comes out your nostrils and becomes loathsome to you; because you have rejected the Lord who is among you and have wept before Him, saying, ‘Why did we ever leave Egypt?’”
The lesson for you and for me is the same…
Hebrews 2:1-4, We must pay much closer attention to what we have heard, lest we drift away from it… How shall we escape if we neglect so great a salvation?

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