We are in the middle of a series looking at how to have a truly restful and purposeful summer. Last week we looked at all the anxiety we feel around money, and the same truths about how we spend our money apply to how we spend our time. Our Father doesn’t ask us to give so He can have more of our money, but so that He can have more of us, more of our heart. As we look at what the Bible has to say about rest, we see God’s same heart. God Himself doesn’t need to rest, but He chooses to set the example of rest in His creation. Long before God mandates rest, He models rest. Looking at Genesis 2, God doesn’t need to rest and He certainly needs neither our work nor our rest; and yet, He puts the command for us to rest into His moral law. If God doesn’t need rest, what does our He actually want with our rest?
