Trinity Sunday

Sermon Text: Genesis 2:2-3 (Resting in the [New] Creation)

The rest of God and creation was meant to be a peace that lasted eternally. This wasn’t about not working but not living in toil and labour that is otherwise taxing on a person. Much of our “rest” isn’t always going to be lounging around but engaging with something or other. This means that the true lack of rest we have is sin, that is, a corruption of what we would be doing to delight our souls. Picturing the promised rest of God as doing nothing is like picturing death where the body simply lies in the grave. When Christ raises us from the dead he does raise us to rest, albeit the rest of the paradise to come still being full of acts of love. We get a sampling of this rest in worship where the Lord gives us peace of heart and mind in His forgiveness and separation from the world’s sinful corruption.