“And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good... Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them.”
The Rest
This verse names finished, worth examining directly, before God’s own rest actually began, worth holding as this movement’s own needed pattern, genuine rest following genuine completion, not perpetually postponed until some impossible, never-arriving sense of everything being entirely done.
This is worth applying against however much your own inability to rest has assumed nothing is ever genuinely finished enough to justify stopping, rather than this verse’s own model, God himself declaring specific, actual work finished, and very good, worth trusting this same declaration as genuinely available to you.
Notice very good, worth holding as genuine satisfaction, not perfectionist dissatisfaction always finding something more to improve, but this described, actual contentment with genuinely completed work, worth examining whether your own perfectionism has quietly prevented this same, honest declaration in your own life.
Consider today what specific work you might genuinely declare finished, and very good, following God’s own example, not perfectionist endlessness, but honest, actual satisfaction, worth practicing today as genuine permission to actually rest, trusting today’s specific work as sufficiently, genuinely complete.
Practice Rest
- Consider what specific work you might genuinely declare finished today, following God’s own example.
- Practice honest satisfaction today, very good, rather than perfectionist endlessness.
- Rest today specifically because today’s actual work is genuinely, sufficiently complete.
Prayer
Lord, you saw all that you had made, and it was very good, and finished. Let me declare my own work sufficiently complete today, and actually rest, not perfectionist endlessness. Amen.
Carry this today
Genuine rest follows genuine completion, declared honestly, not perpetually, perfectionistically postponed.