From the Desk of Jeff King

Resting in Him

Blessed is the man whom You instruct, O LORD, and teach out of your Torah, that You may give him rest from the days of adversity (Psalm 94:12-13)

The world is a mess. Right is wrong, and up is down. People in positions of power and influence seem incapable of making just, common-sense decisions. It's like we're living in Bizarro World, the fictional planet in the old Superman comics, where society is upside down.

But despair not. Messiah Yeshua offers us rest in a world of chaos and calamity. But what does that look like? Strong's renders the Hebrew word for "rest," shaqat, as idleness, stillness or quietness. In our western mindset those words are abstract thoughts. They can mean a lot of things. But look at the picture that unfolds when we translate the word shaqat from the ancient Hebrew pictographic language (Hebrew is read right to left):

Not only does the LORD call us blessed when he receive instruction from Him, we can rest knowing we have divine protection from our adversary.

Posted by Jeff King at May 4, 2009 10:12 AM