A lot of people get really hung up on the details of the bible thinking that God is probably limited to the ways in which we do things or believe things about him. We must come to grips with the reality that God does things according to his own plan and time table—which has little if anything to do with our own thinking.

For instance, in the entire matter of creation there are those who disbelieve it altogether, and those who hold to seven twenty-four hour days—and all the space between those two extremes. Whatever timetable God used, it was clearly based upon some formula different from our own. The sun and moon, by which we determine our twenty-four hour day, were not present until the fourth day.

Moses wrote for us in Genesis 2.2-3: By the seventh day God had finished the work he had been doing; so on the seventh day he rested from all his work. The point being that God did what he set out to do, and then stopped! And having stopped, declared that resting after finishing the work was a good thing. It was so important to God that he made the time of resting special.

Moses concludes: And God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it he rested from all the work of creating that he had done. Like it or not, God has determined that rest is vital to the whole work, whether one sets a clock to be quiet, or simply makes it an important adaptation to the work life, we are holy workers if we do that. BE A HOLY WORKER—REST RIGHTLY!