In the first six days of creation, space is subdued. On the seventh day, time is sanctified. This day is blessed to refresh the earth. Humanity is called to imitate the pattern of labour and rest shown by God. On the seventh day they are to cease subduing the earth.1 By the commemoration of the seventh day, God and his creatures share in the celebration of good creation, and God’s people are enjoined to enter into the rhythm of work and joyful rest. Embracing God’s Sabbath rest meant experiencing the sense of completeness and well-being that God had accomplished at creation in behalf of all human life. The seventh day has no end, and is therefore viewed as eternal. Work of creation having come to an end, now God and man were meant to enjoy relationships with one another.2
2 And on the seventh day God finished his work that he had done, and he rested on the seventh day from all his work that he had done.