Welcome to One Minute Scripter Study, a Come Follow Me podcast. We are your host, Kristen Walker Smith and Callie Black.

Hey, it's Callie Black here with today's thought. Let's open up to Genesis chapter 2, verse 3.

This was it. Everything had been set in place. The creation creation was complete and the plan was ready to move

forward in the account of the seventh day we learn in genesis chapter two verse three and god blessed

the seventh day and sanctified it because that in it he had rested from all his work which god created and made. Did you catch that? God made a

predetermined plan to have a day of rest at the end. This was not a situation where he worked really

quickly and had some extra time to rest. It had been planned all along to leave a period of rest during which he stopped his creation work before the other aspects of the plan moved forward.

He sanctified this day of rest and made it holy.

This really is an eternal principle modeled by God.

We need to plan to stop our work and rest.

And that rest can become truly sanctifying when we focus on God's goodness.

So the takeaway of the day in five words or less, plan for rest.

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