Canaan, and the Rest of God

The rest of God is the state of being in which we always know what God’s will is, and have the desire, wisdom, and strength to perform it.
Sometimes people are tempted to create their own Heaven and earth. In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth the way He wants them. The design was completed, all the way through to the coming down of the new earth from the new sky. The life of each one of his elect was written on the pages of a book. Then God rested. All He asks of us is to enter his rest.
My frame was not hidden from you when I was made in the secret place. When I was woven together in the depths of the earth, your eyes saw my unformed body. All the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be. (Psalms 139:15,16)
It is not true that every individual lives according to what is written in the book of his or her life. Some are disobedient, preferring their own way to God's way. In this case, God makes an adjustment so his eternal plan will be fulfilled. But when this happens, and it may happen more often than we could wish, there is loss for God, for the individual, and for mankind.

The subject of the Book of Hebrews is the "rest of God." The fourth chapter of Hebrews exhorts us to "make every effort to enter that rest," to cease from our own works. We can perceive that by the phrase "make every effort" we are not speaking of relaxing into a state of passivity but of fighting forward against every obstacle that would attempt to keep us from doing God's perfect will for our life.