The Scriptures: Genesis 2—Sabbath Rest

In the opening chapters of Genesis we see a beautiful world coming into being, made by God. The creation account of Genesis is the story of God bringing order to the “formless and void” chaos waters of the earth. God begins to separate spaces and then he fills those spaces with good and beautiful things, with abundance. Once those spaces are filled on the seventh day God “rests”. But what does that mean? Rest here is not inactivity, it is the completion of something that is now ready to function the way it was intended. Rest means that things are now ready to work the way they were designed. Rest means trust. Trusting that the way God has ordered life is what is best. The sabbath was meant to teach us to trust God with our lives.