Beware a “hardened heart.”
'So, as the Holy Spirit says: “Today, if you hear his voice, do not harden your hearts as you did in the rebellion, during the time of testing in the wilderness, where your ancestors tested and tried me, though for forty years they saw what I did. That is why I was angry with that generation; I said, ‘Their hearts are always going astray, and they have not known my ways.’ So I declared on oath in my anger, ‘They shall never enter my rest.’ ” See to it, brothers and sisters, that none of you has a sinful, unbelieving heart that turns away from the living God. But encourage one another daily, as long as it is called “Today,” so that none of you may be hardened by sin’s deceitfulness. '
- Hebrews 3:7-13 NIV
The leading cause of a hardened heart is a distracted life.
‘Their hearts are always going astray, and they have not known my ways.’
- Hebrews 3:10 NIV
God built rest into the rhythm of creation.
'For somewhere he has spoken about the seventh day in these words: “On the seventh day God rested from all his works.”’
- Hebrews 4:4 NIV
Take a break from the noise and listen for God’s voice.
'Let us, therefore, make every effort to enter that rest, so that no one will perish by following their example of disobedience.'
- Hebrews 4:11 NIV
'“Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy and my burden is light… At that time Jesus went through the grainfields on the Sabbath…’
- Matthew 11:28-30 and 12:1a
We can reside in God’s rest.
There remains, then, a Sabbath-rest for the people of God; for anyone who enters God’s rest also rests from their works, just as God did from his.'
- Hebrews 4:9-10 NIV