Boundaries: God created them.

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We’ve already noted that God rested on the 7th day after creating everything. But there’s more to learn from that story about rest.

When God created light on the first day, God separates light (Day) from darkness (Night). Then on day 4, God creates the greater and lesser lights. One of their functions is to keep day and night separate. In other words, the sun and moon are charged to continue an activity that God did on the first day, separating light from darkness, keeping our day distinct and separated from the night. 

Part of the challenges we face in today’s modern world especially in “developed” countries is that the availability of all-day electricity means that 1am in our houses can practically look the same as 1pm. The day and night are not separate. On top of that, when we have unhealthy work habits or have work with irregular hours, while we work away at the computer desk or wherever, we lose track of natural time (dawn, morning sunlight, noon day sun, dusk, night). We keep working into the hours when we ought to be resting.

Our main lesson here is that day and night are meant to be distinguished from one another. This was one of God’s earliest tasks in creation and the sun and moon were created to maintain the distinction. How can we comply with God’s preference that our day and night should be separate?

Say with me: God made boundaries. So will I.

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Published by Shola A.

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5 thoughts on “Boundaries: God created them.”

  1. I thought this was going to end another way but the end of this post is also something to work on. The world even celebrates those that are awake at night working.

    God made boundaries, so will I

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      1. On the first day, God created light and on the 4th, he created lesser and greater light.

        Then you mentioned further that “….In other words, the sun and moon are charged to continue an activity that God did on the first day..”

        I thought I was going to see it this way, “you don’t have to do all your task in a day if it’s going to cost you your rest. Sounds like, God continued an unfinished work of his on the 4th day because he didn’t finish it on the 1st either because he wanted to rest or it was night already”

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      2. This is also a good point: That even though work was unfinished on day 1, God still declared day 1 good, took a break from work, and finished his work later. We too need to mimic this attitude to work and never sacrifice rest.

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      3. …Even though work was unfinished on day 1, God still declared day 1 good… Profound.

        Exactly, we need to mimic this attitude.

        Thank you for sharing, I can say that my rest habit is changing reading from you.

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