Gods place of Rest

As I travel this journey that the Lord has ordained for my life, I find myself more and more seeking His will, His purpose, His Plan for my life. As a loving father, He has not ordained the past five years of heartache and sorrow for no reason. He has a divine purpose in it, and when I fix my eyes on that, when I seek Him and His word with a sincere desire to find out what he is asking of me, the road seems less rough. I know God has ask for total surrender, which will result in total trust. I get that. But this week, as I have been studying God's word, it has been clear to me where the path of surrender and trust will lead.....and that is in to His rest. Hebrews 4:9 reads "There remaineth therefore a rest for the people of God. Hebrews 4:11 reads" Let us labour therefore to enter into that rest, lest any man fall after the same example of unbelief." As I labor through this season of grief and sorrow, my soul yearns to enter into God's rest. That place where I am so quiet, so peaceful, so safe, that I can just rest....not sleep (although for me that would be a blessing too) but rest. I achieve it on occasion...but I still labor. So I continue to work on surrender and trust, for even as the deer pants for water, my soul longs after God, longs to enter into that place of rest, where my mind and my body and my spirit simply rest and become refreshed. So I press on to this goal....to enter in to God's rest...at least for a short while, every day. And I know that God hears my prayers, for He is Good....All the time....and He will not deny this child His rest...not now, not tomorrow, and not for eternity. What a precious promise, what a precious Lord.