“In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.” (Genesis 1:1) The world had a beginning. Life had a beginning. Only God had no beginning. It is He who is the source of all life. Each morning is a new beginning, the beginning of a new day. Our inner man is renewed as we begin each day with God. God’s days began with evenings. Perhaps we should begin each evening with God as well. “All beginnings must begin with God. Always put God first. The first stone in every building, our first thought every morning, the first aim and purpose of all activity.” F.B. Meyer
“1) Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them. 2) And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made. 3) And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made.” (Genesis 2:1-3) God did not rest because he was weary or exhausted, but because His work of Creation was finished. God is ever at work.
“But Jesus answered them, My Father worketh hitherto, and I work.” (John 5:17) We enter into His rest, when we cease from our own works. “1) Let us therefore fear, lest, a promise being left us of entering into his rest, any of you should seem to come short of it. 2) For unto us was the gospel preached, as well as unto them: but the word preached did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in them that heard it. 3) For we which have believed do enter into rest, as he said, As I have sworn in my wrath, if they shall enter into my rest: although the works were finished from the foundation of the world. 4) For he spake in a certain place of the seventh day on this wise, And God did rest the seventh day from all his works. 5) And in this place again, If they shall enter into my rest. 6) Seeing therefore it remaineth that some must enter therein, and they to whom it was first preached entered not in because of unbelief: 7) Again, he limiteth a certain day, saying in David, To day, after so long a time; as it is said, To day if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts. 8) For if Jesus* had given them rest, then would he not afterward have spoken of another day. 9) There remaineth therefore a rest to the people of God. 10) For he that is entered into his rest, he also hath ceased from his own works, as God did from his.” (Hebrews 4:1-10)
~J. L. T. Y.
*Jesus - in this passage, speaking of Joshua when he led the people into the promised land. They did not there find the peaceful rest which remains for the people of God who enter into Christ's rest.