Day 7 – Creation Finished - Resting

Memory Verse: Its been a week. You have done something amazing as a family. If you have not missed a day then way to go! If you did, no worries, just keep at it! Seven days ago did you imagine your kids and possibly you would have come this far? There should be no stopping now that you have had a taste of what this is like!

Genesis 2:1-4
Everything is finished. God rests on the 7th day and declared it holy because He rested on this day. Since we are created in His image we are supposed to rest as He did and consider it a Holy day (Set apart from the rest). What does this mean to us? Well as a family we often have crazy schedules that run 7 days a week. We work Monday through Friday and we try to ‘catch up’ on what we missed on Saturday and Sunday. Mix in church on Sunday and do we really ever have any family time where we rest? We might need to apologize to our children for never having spent the time we’re command to, resting as a family. Let them know that as a family you will do better to make an effort to spend more time together. Part of what makes this whole process of family worship and growth with God is time together as a family.

This might be a tuff one as you can go the easy route and just say we need to rest more, or stop and think about God more. The truth to this one hits parents more. Our job is to raise children in a Godly way, give them a biblical world view, and teach them some tuff lessons. This is one of the first… seven days into it. God wants us to not fill our lives with so much stuff that we can’t rest. We teach our kids to do 20 things more than they need to and wonder why we they have problems later on. Simple is the way to go. We might need to work a little more during the week, and plan a little better to have that one day were we can rest as a family. Take in a picnic. Go for a walk. Do something that doesn’t require us to run around non-stop.

Pray as a family that you will make the time to spend time together. Focus on your family. You might have to ask God for forgiveness during prayer time. We tell our kids they need to ask for forgiveness when they do something wrong, and we need to model it when we do something wrong. Rejoice in the fact that your family is on the right path with God!