We rest by ceasing from the dead works we thought would gain us favor with God. Rather than performing religious acrobatics to rid ourselves of sins, we can sit down with Jesus. We can simply agree, “Yes, it’s finished.” This is entering God’s rest. This is celebrating today’s Sabbath: There remains, then, a Sabbath-rest for the people of God; for those who enter God’s rest also rest from their own work, as God did from his. Let us, therefore, make every effort to enter that rest. HEBREWS 4:9-11,