Finding Rhythm

This week has been challenging to say the least.  I’m physically tired, emotionally drained, and spiritually dry.  I want things to be easy again.  To be peaceful.  After all it’s summer.  I’m wondering if “the lazy days of summer” is some long ago story that doesn’t really hold true today.

In my search to find comfort this week, I went back to the beginning.  The very beginning.  I turned in my bible to Genesis 1. The Creation of this world.

I have known these scriptures since I was very young.  It’s a marvelous, breathtaking, story, but something new stood out to me this time as I read.

God created man in his own image in the image of God he created him; 
male and female he created them. Genesis 1:27 (This was on the sixth day.)

So God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it God rested from all his work that he had done in creation. Genesis 2:3

Do you see it too?  The first exposure Adam had to God was seeing Him rest.

Seeing Him rest.

On the seventh day.

The Perfect One setting the perfect example

Once Adam and Eve sinned against God, though, life changed drastically.  The curse for their sin was work–hard work.  And not just for them, but for all the world to come. This side of Eden we still live under that curse.  Our days blur together in this fast paced world.  We easily fine ourselves speaking phrases like:

 I’m so busy.

 Life is just crazy right now.

 I’m exhausted from work.

 I’m spent.

 I’ve given all I can give.

I’m pretty certain phrases like these would never have been spoken in the Garden.

But hope is not lost.  Because in the beautiful scriptures from Genesis comes an important message.  I believe God knew we would struggle with weariness from work.

And there was evening and there was morning on the first day.  That phrase is repeated after each day of Creation.  And there was evening and there was morning.  God ordered a rhythm to life—evening and morning.  A rhythm to life, complete with a seventh day for rest.

I don’t have all the answers, and I’m not quite sure how to fully tap into the rhythm God has intended.  But knowing He ordered this into being, structured a perfect plan for our daily lives, I certainly want to give it a try.

Daytime for work.  Evening for rest.  And one day a week to be free from work and filled with rest.

It sounds divine.  And not so complicated.  I think I’ll give it a try.