“Thus the heavens and the earth were completed in all their vast array. By the seventh day God had finished the work he had been doing; so on the seventh day he rested from all his work. And God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it he rested from all the work of creating that he had done.” (Gen. 2:1-3 NIV)
We have come full circle in the continuum of life that the Creator set in place at the beginning. The old year is gone and this New Year unfolds before us as the rotation of time continues. The Preacher wrote, “I know that, whatsoever God doeth, it shall be for ever: nothing can be put to it, nor any thing taken from it: and God doeth it, that men should fear before him” (Ecclesiastes 3:14 KJV). God’s handiwork is so perfect that nothing can be added to it nor taken from it.
Note God’s own words, “I am God, and there is none like me, Declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times the things that are not yet done . . .” (Isa. 46:9-10 KJV). The exciting thing about our lives in 2010 is that we don’t know the end from the beginning. Each day will be a new day full of possibility. For us, life must unfold day-by-day, but for God it is already completed. So, we do not fear the future because “we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose” (Rom. 8:28 KJV). Since it is already completed in all its vast array, our life is safe in God through Christ.
It is by faith that we live today, tomorrow, and all the future tomorrows of this year. By faith, we hold God’s unchanging hand knowing that He will finish all that He has begun in us. By faith, we rest in his completed work of salvation through Christ. By faith, we lift up holy hands in worship of the One who rested from all his creating work.
Dear Father, thank you for your created works. Enable us to stop our labors and fully enter into the rest that you provide in Christ. This I pray in the name of Jesus. AMEN
Be encouraged today and rest in God’s finished work,