What are the three most fundamental questions we should each answer?
Why am I here? Where am I going? How do I get there?—the question now becomes: how, then, should I live? What personal changes should I make in my life to fulfill my purpose? What should I focus my attention on first? What should be my priority?
Jesus spoke in Revelation chapter 3:
18 I counsel you to buy from Me gold refined in the fire, that you may be rich; and white garments, that you may be clothed, that the shame of your nakedness may not be revealed; and anoint your eyes with eye salve, that you may see.
Jesus spoke this revelation to a church whom He described as being lukewarm. Further, they thought they had their act together because they misperceived themselves as being rich and having become wealthy, with need of nothing. He saw them as wretched, miserable, poor, blind, and naked! This is what spiritual blindness will do to a person.
Jesus is exhorting us to do whatever is necessary to be prepared and to reflect Christ in all we do. If we did not have the capacity to do what He directed, He would not have spoken those Words. We must have faith in HIS Word rather than our past failings.
Paul wrote by The Holy Spirit in Romans 8:
28 And we know that all things work together for good to those who Love God, to those who are the called according to His purpose.
29 For whom He foreknew, He also predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son, that He might be the firstborn among many brethren.
30 Moreover whom He predestined, these He also called; whom He called, these He also justified; and whom He justified, these He also glorified.
If we learn to stay clean, Holy, and righteous, by making “faith choices” to put off the sin and self, the rest will follow pretty easily. We’ll be able to partake of Christ’s Life, which will allow us to become overcomers and produce fruit that will eventually lead us to inheriting the Kingdom. We will then walk in the Rest of GOD.
Jesus spoke in Matthew chapter 11:
25 Then Jesus exclaimed, “Father, thank You, for You are Lord, the Supreme Ruler over Heaven and earth! And You have hidden the great revelation of Your authority from those who are proud and think they are wise and unveiled it instead to little children.
26 Yes, Father, You’ve chosen this gracious plan to extend your Kingdom.
27 You have entrusted Me with all that You are and all that You have. No one fully and intimately knows the Son except the Father. And no one fully and intimately knows the Father except the Son. But the Son is able to unveil the Father to anyone He chooses.
28 “Are you weary, carrying a heavy burden? Come to Me. I will refresh your life, for I am your oasis.
29 Simply join your life with Mine. Learn My ways and you’ll discover that I’m gentle, humble, easy to please. You will find refreshment and rest in Me.
30 For all that I require of you will be pleasant and easy to bear.”
There are two kinds of “rest”. One type of rest refers to the present as in the above Matthew Scripture, and it means “to rest by allowing Christ to live his Life out through us.
However, there is another kind of rest that refers to the future. This rest implies participation with Christ in His Millennial Kingdom rule. This is where we truly will rest from all our labor. So, rest can point to a place as well as an experience.
Paul speaks of this rest as he wrote by The Holy Spirit in Hebrews chapter 3:
7 Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says: “Today, if you will hear His Voice,
8 Do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion, In the day of trial in the wilderness, 9 Where your fathers tested Me, tried Me, And saw My works forty years.
10 Therefore I was angry with that generation, And said, ‘They always go astray in their heart, And they have not known My ways.’
11 So I swore in My wrath, ‘They shall not enter My rest.'”
It is your choice as to which path you take but first, you should answer the questions above.