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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; and God saw that it was good.” Genesis 1:18,
“…and to govern the day and the night, and to separate the light