God Rested?

We know that God created the world in six days and then RESTED on the seventh day. I have always wondered, though, WHY DID GOD REST? WHAT DID HE DO WHEN HE WAS RESTING? Well, I think I may have found a clue...in Proverbs 8.
Jesus IS wisdom, and in Proverbs 8 He speaks in the first person. It's amazing! He describes having been with the Father before Creation. Then He describes what it was like creating the earth with His Father. In verses 30-31 He says, "Then I was the craftsman at his side. I was filled with delight day after day, rejoicing always in his presence, rejoicing in his whole world..." But the CLUE is in the rest of verse 31: "...AND DELIGHTING IN MANKIND." So, my thoughts are just that after creating everything man needed in order to live on this earth, God's work ended with the crescendo of creating man. Then, He spent the next day DELIGHTING in man! I suspect He just wanted to spend some quality time with Adam and Eve! This was a very special time in history and eternity! He took time to delight in it.
We, too, are called to times of rest. We are called BY God to times of rest, and we are also called TO God in times of rest. Do we take this rest we so deeply need? He intended times of rest and enjoyment. Let's consider Isaiah 28:10-12. "For it is: Do and do, do and do, rule on rule, rule on rule; a little here, a little there...This is the resting place, let the weary rest...this is the place of repose, but they would not listen." God was speaking and reaching out to His weary people who were refusing to stop and rest! Verse 13 completes the picture, because it gives us a very clear understanding of what danger we face if we do not rest. So much is at stake!

"So then, the word of the Lord to them will become:

Do and do, do and do, rule on rule, rule on rule; a little here, a little there -

so that they will go and fall backward, be injured and snared and captured."

Oh, Lord, please don't let YOU or YOUR WORD ever become "just another thing on my to do list." I don't want this kind of captivity!

God's word should not be a burden to us, but a source of peace and satisfaction.

Our time in the Word should never by a DUTY but a time of enjoying God!

We need to delight in Him - delight in His Presence! He delights in intimate fellowship with us! If we are not delighting in Him, we need more than ever to take time for resting in His Presence...too much is at stake.