As I read Genesis 2:1-3 this morning I was reminded that God established a pattern of living, a rhythm of doing life, if you will, when He created all that was necessary to create in six days and then took the seventh day to stand back and reflect on what had been done and to rest.
He could have certainly kept on creating but He didn't. Why? Maybe part of it was to speak to us and to say, 'There will always be more to do. But it's OK. It's OK to take a break and it's OK to rest even when there is more to be done.'
I don't know about you but I need to hear that again and again because my tendency is to think that it is not OK. And if I do take a break that I'm being lazy. But there is a difference between laziness and resting as prescribed by God. Laziness is when we don't do what we are supposed to do. Laziness is not working when we are supposed to work. God certainly says to work - Adam was even given work to do even in the context of the Garden before the fall of man.
But God also says to rest. Rest is good and is necessary. The rhythm that God has dictated on how to do life is a rhythm of 6 on and 1 off. Six days of doing and one day of stepping back, reflecting and resting.
6 on and 1 off - 6 on and 1 off. It's just like breathing.
Are you able to live in this rhythm? Why or why not?
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