Next biblical worldview of rest is the statement, 3 Then God blessed the seventh day and made it holy… Where else do we see God bless creation? Day five and six, with animals and humanity. He created the animals and said to humanity, “God blessed and said, ‘be fruitful and multiple.”

The intention here is to be life giving. Which means, in God blessing the seventh day, his intention is for it to be life giving, refreshing, multiplying in you His presence and his goodness. God desires a time, a day to be life-giving, that’s why he blessed it.
Then it says, God blessed it and made it holy. Holy means to sanctify, to dedicate, to set-apart. What God is saying, in resting, is that he is making time holy, set-apart, sanctified, dedicated to something greater than the other days or other time. A time of rest should be different than the other time or days of the week.

Let me shift it slightly this way. We set-apart or dedicate what we value. Think about other “days” of celebration; last week we celebrated Mother’s Day, next week is Memorial Day, a few weeks after that is Father’s Day, Forth of July, Labor Day, Thanksgiving, Christmas, Easter, birthdays and anniversaries. Whatever the reason may be or the why, we set those days a part because we value the person, or role, or presence or activity of the said day.
In a larger way, the biblical worldview of rest is stopping and delighting with a time that is set-apart from other times in your life because you value God’s presence, role, activity in your life.

Today, I want you to take some time with this song, Abide by Aaron Williams. If you also want to read John 15 (vine and the branches). This gives us the picture of connecting to God as our life source. How can you take your restlessness and sit with God, share it with him, allow him to draw your attention to other passages, or songs or even nature or people.