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4:9&10, “There remains therefore a Sabbath rest for the people
of God. For the one who has entered His rest has himself also
rested from his works, as God did from His.” 4:10 says that God
rested. If I can understand what it means that God rested, perhaps
I can understand what it means for me to rest. As God rested we
must rest. Let me begin with what it means that God rested.

Hebrews 4:4, “For He has thus said somewhere
concerning the seventh day, ‘And God rested on the seventh day
from all His works.’” The Holy Spirit says that after six days of
creation God rested. I know what that does not mean. It doesn’t
mean that God quit working and now He works no more. John
5:17, “But He answered them, ‘My Father is working until now,
and I Myself am working.’” It doesn’t mean that God was
exhausted and weary after He finished. Isaiah 40:28, “Do you
not know? Have you not heard? The Everlasting God, the Lord,
the Creator of the ends of the earth does not become weary or
tired. His understanding is inscrutable.” God does not become
weary.

It certainly doesn’t mean, when it says that God rested,
that God was frustrated or anxious. Habbakuk 3:3&4, “God
comes from Teman, and the Holy One from Mount Paran, His
splendor covers the heavens, and the earth is full of His praise.
His radiance is like the sunlight; He has rays flashing from His
hand, and there is the hiding of His power.” We look at creation
and we say, “Look at the power of God.” The prophet looked at
creation and said, “That is the hiding of His power.” That’s just
a little picture of the power of God. Every six days God could
have created another universe as big as this and never duplicated
any shape, law, size or color. That’s our God! How great is our
God!

Genesis 1:4, “And God saw that the light was good; and
God separated the light from the darkness.” Genesis 1:10, “And
God called the dry land earth, and the gathering of the waters He
called seas; and God saw that it was good.” Genesis 1:12, “And
the earth brought forth vegetation, plants yielding seed after their
kind, and trees bearing fruit, with seed in them, after their kind;