Rest

Genesis 2:2 God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it he rested from all the work of creating that he had done.

For six days God created the heavens, the earth, plants, animals and finally He created man and from the man...woman. All this in six days! No wonder God rested on the seventh day....but wait ...was God tired? How could that be? If He was tired wouldn't that mean there was something lacking in God?

It wasn't that God was "exhausted" because He worked too much...God's rest didn't mean He was inactive. God ceased "creating." He had created everything that He had intended to create. And when He observed all that He had created, He called it "very good" (Genesis 1:31). God's "rest" was only that His work of creation was complete. God then began the work of sustaining all that He had created. At the fall of man in the Garden of Eden, God's work of redemption began (John 3:16).

In these days in which we live, there is only one new thing that is created and only one way to create it. That new creation is any man, woman or child who believes in the Lord Jesus Christ for salvation.

2 Corinthians 5:17 If anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come.

God has provided the way for you and me to become a totally new creation when we accept His Son Jesus as the Lord of our lives. Who I was no longer exists; today I am a child of the King. My eternal life began the day I asked Jesus into my heart. I am a new creation!

God no longer "creates" new creations...He has provided the Gift...Jesus...the means...and all we have to do is accept it and our lives are forever transformed for eternity!

What an awesome Gift given to us over 2000 years ago. That Gift came wrapped in a bundle, and has never gone out of date or expired. Every year at Christmas time we are reminded of the Gift and the promise of new life it holds. It is a gift we can share with others any time of year, not just December 25th. But do we? This year let's take the Gift of Jesus out from under the tree and share it 365 days a year.

MaryAnn

MaryAnn and John Kiernan have been married for 35 years, have 2 grown/married sons and are the proud grandparents of three grandsons. She serves at America's Keswick as a Biblical Counselor and also as Intake Coordinator for the Colony of Mercy. Her life verse is Romans 8:28.