The Day God Took Off

Erik preached on the seventh day of creation in Genesis 2, when God rested. He described God’s rest as the rest of “settling”—settling down and settling in—and explored what what it teaches us about creation, God, and our relation to both. Here is part of his conclusion:

We rest only by entering God’s rest. So rather trying to build a new sabbath practice, or letting go of some ambition, or giving up some pastime that disturbs your peace, my hope is simpler. It’s that once in a while, this thought occurs to you: creation is the space God made so that he might settle down with us. It’s easier to entertain this thought outside on a nice day or a clear, starry night. But you don’t need the grandeur of a natural park or even a trip out into the county. You just need to look up, look around and notice that all of this, the trees and sky, this planet, its sun, and all the 93 billion lightyears of stars: God made them all so that he might have a place to settle down with us. All that work—creation and recreation—to create a place and a people with which to settle down.