God Rested: Genesis 2:1-3

Thus the heavens and the earth were completed in all their vast array.

Completed. The word carries finality, satisfaction, the last brushstroke on a canvas that needed nothing more. Everything that would exist had been called into being. The inventory of creation was full.

By the seventh day God had finished the work he had been doing; so on the seventh day he rested from all his work.

Rested. Not because he was tired—the Creator of the universe does not grow weary. He rested because the work was done. He stopped because stopping was part of the design. The rhythm of work and rest was woven into the fabric of creation before the first human worked a single day.