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On the seventh day—with the canvas of the cosmos completed—God paused from His labor and rested. Thus God blessed day seven and made it special—an open time for pause and restoration, a sacred zone of Sabbath-keeping, because God rested from all the work He had done in creation that day.

God’s rest on the seventh day is a model for the kind of Sabbath rest He wants for His people.

This is the detailed story of the Eternal God’s singular work in creating all that exists. On the day the heavens and earth were created,

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