Charles Spurgeon Commentary Hebrews 4:1

"Let us fear therefore, lest haply, a promise being left of entering into his rest, any one of you should seem to have come short of it." — Hebrews 4:1 (ASV)

Let us therefore fear, lest, a promise being left us of entering into his rest, any of you should seem to come short of it.

If you avoid even the appearance of it, you will avoid the thing itself. Oh, that we were careful about this—that there would be nothing to cause any reasonable fear to those who observe us, or to ourselves when we search our hearts, for fear that we might not enter into this rest.

Let us therefore fear, lest, a promise being left us of entering into his rest, any of you should seem to come short of it.

Not only dread coming short, but dread the very appearance of it. Oh, that we might now enter into that rest, and so clearly enjoy it that there should not even be a seeming to come short of it.