Genesis 2 English Standard Version

The Seventh Day, God Rests

1 Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them. ² And on the seventh day God finished his work that he had done, and he rested on the seventh day from all his work that he had done. ³ So God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it God rested from all his work that he had done in creation.

Basic training has to come to an end. The eternal God has finished His work. In His eternal realm He is finished and the thing that disturbs most of us is a sense that God is done with us.

“All the host” is a representation of everything that has ever taken breath, including those that have not even been born yet. We are living in time and we are not done.

The only comfort I can take from those thoughts is that since God is finished, then He will not change what He has done. 

Psalm 55:19 God will give ear and humble them, he who is enthroned from of old, Selah because they do not change and do not fear God.

While God does not change His mind, we can. So what are our choices?

Go with God, or go it alone.

How can we go with God?

Ezekiel 36:26 And I will give you a new heart, and a new spirit I will put within you. And I will remove the heart of stone from your flesh and give you a heart of flesh.

Psalm 21:2 You have given him his heart’s desire and have not withheld the request of his lips. Selah

Proverbs 23:26 My son, give me your heart, and let your eyes observe my ways.

God wants our hearts. If we do that, we will discover what God intended for us from the very beginning.

Revelation 10:7 but that in the days of the trumpet call to be sounded by the seventh angel, the mystery of God would be fulfilled, just as he announced to his servants the prophets.

Jeremiah 29:11 For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope.

1 Thessalonians 4:3-5

For this is the will of God, your sanctification:

King James Dictionary

Sanctification: The Act of Making a Thing Pure and Holy.

Matthew 6:9-13

Pray then like this: “Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name. Your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.

God’s will is done in heaven because every angel that opposed God’s will has been removed from His presence because of rebellion.

We are not physically in heaven and as such God’s will is preparing us for that day by the process of sanctification. 

Psalm 5:7 But I, through the abundance of your steadfast love, will enter your house. I will bow down toward your holy temple in the fear of you.

Psalm 10:13 Why does the wicked renounce God and say in his heart, “You will not call to account”?

Romans 2:4 Or do you presume on the riches of his kindness and forbearance and patience, not knowing that God’s kindness is meant to lead you to repentance?

The only way to avoid repentance is to stop sinning.

1 Corinthians 6:20 for you were bought with a price. So glorify God in your body.

If we obey to glorify ourselves our heart is not right towards doing the will of the Father.

Nehemiah 9:17 They refused to obey and were not mindful of the wonders that you performed among them, but they stiffened their neck and appointed a leader to return to their slavery in Egypt. But you are a God ready to forgive, gracious and merciful, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love, and did not forsake them.