Genesis 2:1-3 “Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all their multitude. And on the seventh day God finished the work that he had done, and he rested on the seventh day from all the work that he had done. So God blessed the seventh day and hallowed it, because on it God rested from all the work that he had done in creation.”
In this passage we see that God rested on the 7th day. But this is not the only thing that happens. The second thing that happens on the 7th day is that God blessed and hallowed the 7th day. Of all things that God creates in the preceding days, only the 7th day is sanctified.
Of course, we are not saying that humans and the rest of creation are not holy. There are other passages that attest to that. Within the creation story of Gen 1:1-2:3 only the 7th day is called holy and it is holy because God rested. The Hebrew word for holy here is qedesh. It is the same word that means sacredness, setting apart. It comes up severally in the Hebrew Bible as referring to God’s holy name and holy temple.
Our takeaway from the creation of the 7th day is that God’s rest from work is holy, as holy as God’s name and temple. Your rest is holy too. Say this out loud with me: my rest is holy.
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