Written by Mark Roberts, a contemporary author and speaker.
After creating the universe in six days, God set aside a day for rest. God’s action on the seventh day—or, better yet, God’s decision to cease working—is foundational for our understanding and practice of rest. If God rested, then surely those of us created in God’s image should also rest. But God’s example creates a compelling case for the importance and even the necessity of rest… God’s action on the seventh day – or, better yet, God’s decision to cease acting – is foundational for our understanding and practice of rest. If God rested, then surely those of us created in God’s image should also rest. We may not yet know why. But God’s example creates a compelling case for the importance and even the necessity of rest.
Thus the heavens and the earth were completed in all their vast array. By the seventh day God had finished the work he had been doing; so on the seventh day he rested from all his work. Then God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it he rested from all the work of creating that he had done. [Genesis 2:1-3]
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