And God Rested

The Seventh Day has arrived. As the moon rises and the cool of the night settles, God performs a very special act to seal forever the authority of His creative power on Earth. He sanctifies this day by setting it aside as a special day- a holy time-that will return again and again as a reminder of what He has done.

And thus was born the week-seven days, beginning with the light of the Creator's appearance and ending with a day of rest. In our time, we commemorate special events with holy days, or holidays. The Seventh Day of Creation is such a day: it is the birthday of the world.

The Lord of the universe has finished His finest creation: humanity. He placed man and woman in the midst of a garden home that He had prepared just for them, a garden where as far as the eye can see there is perfection. The trees are only two days old, and the animals-as well as Adam and Eve themselves-are only a day old. But the world looks like it has been in place forever. The character of God is represented on earth in what He has created and made.

Even in a paradise like this, God knows that human beings will occasionally need to stop pursuing their own interest in order to remember the Creator who made heaven and Earth. So He gave us a day, one in every seven-the Sabbath-to remind us every week that He is the Creator and that we are His creatures.

And the Creator spent that day visiting with Adam and Eve. What an occasion that must have been! Spread out before them was God's original lesson book-the book of nature-written in a language that only God can interpret. As eager students, Adam and Eve listened as Jesus used the abundance of natural wonders to teach them of His everlasting wisdom, power, and love. Today, as He did on that first Sabbath, Jesus Still uses the things of nature to draw you close to Him.

A Word from Our Creator:

And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made. And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it.

Genesis 2:2,3.