This week’s readings are based on the “Chill” sermon series. For this series, we are looking at God’s command to rest and the implications this has on our lives. Start resting with God by slowing down, reading the text, and then letting it read you.

So God created mankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them. … God saw all that he had made, and it was very good. And there was evening, and there was morning—the sixth day. … By the seventh day God had finished the work he had been doing; so on the seventh day he rested from all his work. Then 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 1:27,31, 2:2-3 (NIV)

God’s seventh day was Adam and Eve’s first. Before anything else affected their lives, they spent the day resting with God. We often find ourselves working for moments of rest. We tend to be more of human doings than human beings.

Are you more focused on doing things for God, rather than being with God? Where do you need rest?