The Cure for the Restless
“On the seventh day God was finished with his work which He had made, so He rested on the seventh day from all His work which He had made. God blessed the seventh day and separated it as holy; because on that day God rested from all His work which He had created, so that it itself could produce.”
Hello Bride of Christ,
In the beginning, the earth and the heavens make night and day, living creatures roam, and God rests. God rested? God commanded all living creatures and mankind to multiply and fill the earth, and instead of helping He ceased, and rested. Counterintuitive to our nature, God used rest to produce more.
“On the seventh day God was finished with his work which He had made, so He rested on the seventh day from all His work which He had made. God blessed the seventh day and separated it as holy; because on that day God rested from all His work which He had created, so that it itself could produce.” Genesis 2: 2-3
God spoke light, day and night, sea and sky, creeping creatures, birds of the air, and man into existence over a six-day period, then He rested. On the seventh day, He noted all was complete. He established a day of REST. An unordinary day, set apart from all other days, for work ceased on this day. The rest God purposefully created brought forth life, for “God rested from all His work which He had created, so that itself could produce.” God’s rest provided the space creation needed to produce and fulfill the command God, Himself, set forth to multiply and fill the earth. God deemed rest sacred. He established rest to observe creation and appreciate its goodness.
Bride of Christ, your God desires for you to rest. Although the world’s demands weigh on your shoulders and call you to do more, your God calls you to rest. God desires for you to cease work. He calls you to emulate the Divine. Separate yourself today from all your work, so that the work itself could produce. Rest refreshes your human strength and creativity. In His infinite wisdom, God instituted a day of rest for all His creation to recharge. On the first seventh-day in history God rested and today He calls His children to rest. Let us be obedient people and heed our hearts to the encouragement of the writer of Hebrews, “There remains therefore a rest for the people of God. For he who has entered His rest has himself also ceased from his works as God did from His. Let us therefore be diligent to enter that rest lest anyone fall according to the same example of disobedience.” (Hebrews 4: 9-11) Lest you forget, God calls you to enter into His day of rest today.
