God Believes In Rest. Do You?

When I read the opening chapters of the Bible, a simple fact always stands out to me: God rested. After a week of work—a workweek in which he created this world and all that is in it—he rested. It’s not that he was tired and needed to put his feet up or that he was worn out and needed to recharge his creative energy. It’s that he wanted to weave a pattern into the very fabric of this world. He wanted to establish a rhythm of labor that gives way to rest. And if the uncreated and untiring God fol