The First Weekend

Song: In The Garden

Scripture: Genesis 1:1-2:3

Saturday was God’s day of rest after the activity of creation. His weekend was a one day weekend, not two. Sunday, not Monday, had been the beginning of His work week.

Imagine the first Saturday, and the satisfaction that must have been a part of it! For the first time all of creation—the birds of the air, the fish of the sea, the beasts of the earth—joined in a chorus of praise to the Creator. For the first time ever, the sun rose on a fully completed creation. Man and woman enjoyed upon this first Saturday perfect and entire access to God.

That first Saturday was indeed a day of rest for God, for man, for all creation. The curse of sin would all too soon take that rest away. The Sabbath rest of the Jews would provide some temporary and partial rest from sin’s curse by allowing man to rest from his labor and commune with God. But how imperfect was that rest compared to the first weekend when communion with God was not a mere shadow, but a reality.

God be thanked that Jesus Christ, Lord of the Sabbath, has given man rest again, not just from sin’s consequences, but from sin’s curse. And “Lord haste the day when the faith shall be sight” and our rest shall again be perfect and abiding and our Sabbath without end.

Jason Moore