My church just started an intense study of Hebrews. We're talking about Hebrews in both morning and evening services. We discuss it in our bi-weekly sheparding groups. And it's been encouraged that we read it once through weekly and memorize key passages. This not well known hymn, written by Charles Wesley, came to mind as I was reading Hebrews 4. What an assurance!
LORD, I believe a rest remains To all thy people known,
A rest where pure enjoyment reigns, And thou art loved alone:
A rest, where all our souls desire Is fixed on things above;
Where fear, and sin, and grief expire, Cast out by perfect love.
O that I now the rest might know, Believe, and enter in!
Now, Saviour, now the power bestow, And let me cease from sin.
Remove this hardness from my heart, This unbelief remove:
To me the rest of faith impart, The Sabbath of thy love.
I would be thine, thou know'st I would, And have thee all my own;
Thee, O my all-sufficient good! I want, and thee alone.
Thy name to me, thy nature grant! This, only this be given:
Nothing beside my God I want, Nothing in earth or heaven.
Come, O my Saviour, come away! Into my soul descend;
No longer from thy creature stay, My author and my end!
Come, Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, And seal me thine abode!
Let all I am in thee be lost, Let all be lost in God.