Refreshing

‘Rested’ and ‘refreshed’ seems pointless if You are infinite and have unlimited capacity—after all, You never get tired, need to recuperate from exertion. Yet, God repeatedly emphasizes this wisdom to stop accomplishing and appreciate what has been accomplished. God is not driven to continually create, to keep producing, to prove His god-ness by productivity and He is noting that we are not to be driven either to do more than, or more often than, Him.

The original context refers to His creating at the beginning but it goes beyond into the week after that first seventh day when God again does work. Even right on down to this Mount Sinai experience when He gives the precept about how to live before Him,

And he gave to Moses, when he had finished speaking with Him on Mount Sinai, the two tablets of the testimony, tablets of stone, written with the finger of God. ¹

The time of refreshing—weekly—is a pause considering what has been done not out of tiredness but out of satisfaction with the completeness of the accomplishment. Then we move on to the next completion cycle.

Are we willing to rest and refresh or do we feel that we must continually be working, that enough is never enough, that God would never be satisfied if we rest and refresh?

FOOTNOTE: 

¹   Exodus 31:18 (ESV) – https://www.blueletterbible.org/esv/exo/31/18/s_81018