“ By the seventh day God had finished the work He had been doing; so on the seventh day He rested from all His work. And God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it He rested from all the work of creating that He had done “
Genesis 2:2-3
God was full of imagination. He was pregnant with many thoughts. His thoughts became ideas, and the ideas became images. Everything that is came out of God as He spoke those images. The unseen became seen—the invisible became visible.
God’s speaking was much like the contractions of a woman in labor. With effort He pushed out each detailed creation. Then God began organizing the things that appeared. He was busy as He set them up, organizing and organizing and reorganizing. Finally God said, “This is good.”
God didn’t create the world by just thinking the whole thing into being. He worked it into being. After creating a plan in His mind, God spoke to make visible the invisible. (Speaking was one of the ways He worked.) All that was made came from God. Through work He created the world.
For six days God created the heavens and the earth. On the seventh day He rested. Spoke must be a fairly serious thing. If God, who is almighty and all powerful, had to rest after creation, spoke it must have been very hard work.
When creation was completed, God rested. God was the first one to sabbat—He intended the Sabbath to be a blessing. He knows that life produces work, and work creates the need to rest.
All that was made came from God. Through work He created the world.
