Working From Rest: A Prayer JourneySample

Working from God’s Rest

Lord, thank you that your creation design was that our labour should flow from a place of rest.

Meaningful work is God’s gift to us. In the creation account, ‘the seventh day is, in reality, man’s first day, thus he began his life immediately in rest. Unlike God, man had not laboured in the previous six days, yet rest was bestowed upon him utterly underserved. In other words, God’s work preceded man’s, His endowment of rest preceded His entrustment of work. Hence human history springs from the freedom to rest, i.e. to exist before God and to live with God’ (Kan Chan). Adam’s first day was one of celebrating creation with God – only then did he begin work.

For reflection: If you were to consider Sunday as the start of your week and not the end, what difference would it make?