On the sixth day God created man, finishing His creation, and declaring it very good. Once His work was completed, God rested, giving man a seventh day of the week that is set aside for rest. But it isn't until the work is complete that God rests. When God starts something, He sees it through to completion. God does not leave anything unfinished, nor does He endlessly work at something never completing. When God begins a task, He sees it through to the end, no matter what it is.
When I was young, the church my family attended held Sunday night service, and during the even service they would take song requests from the hymnal and chorus book. Almost every week I would request chorus 160, "He's Still Working on Me".
He's still working on me
To make me what I ought to be
It took Him just a week to make the moon and stars
The sun and the earth and Jupiter and Mars
How loving and and patient He must be
He's still working on me
I don't know why I liked that song so much as a kid, but the reality is God has spent more time working on me then He did to create the universe. In six days the heavens and earth were completed, and it's been 32 years and one month since I was born, and God just now seems to be touching some areas of my life. God started this work before I was ever born, and even though it has been more than three decades He is still at work. And even though the end is not in sight for me, God is not going to rest until this work is completed.
Because God whose image we bear sees things through to completion, let us do so as well. Let us finish what we start, and let us finish well. And when we are done, let us take time to rest and enjoy what we have done, just as God did.
Fight the lion, 1 Peter 5.1-11
TO GOD ALONE BE THE GLORY!
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