God saw all that he had made, and it was very good. And there was evening, and there was morning—the sixth day.

Genesis 1:31

Man was born on a sixth day.  It was the very first sixth day, and we tell time by it as the second to last of our week, Friday.  After God created man, his day was done.  There was evening, and morning–the sixth day.  The first thing man got to do was to sleep.

Second, after this, God had has his full ‘work week’, the full six-days.  God chose to take a break, to call it the Sabbath, the seventh day.  He blessed and hallowed this day, calling it holy, as a day set apart for no work, for rest for man.  This was the seventh, the end of our week, Saturday.  The very second thing that man, newly created, got to do, was to take a day off.

God worked, and man was not.  God had nearly finished, and made man.  Man’s first day was God’s sixth, and God’s rest was man’s first sight.  Man was given a job, told what he would do, to rule over the Earth and to eat of it’s food, and then God rested, and so so did the man.

Jesus said to them, The Sabbath was made for man, and not man for the Sabbath. So the Son of Man is Lord even of the Sabbath.

Mark 2:27-28

God created the day of rest for the man, not the other way around.  Although man did not come until near the end of God’s work, it was for man to rule over that it was created.

The evenings and mornings were established before they were governed.  Before the sun shone, they were established.  The evening and morning, the day, was the whole.

God did not need a day.  He is and always was.  He is outside of time.  What He established in the day, was a rhythm for man.  Then, He added to the rhythm with the week.  And, today, still, we have evening and we have morning.

The light and darkness were not evil, for they were before the fall.  The work and the rest came and went, came and went, so long as man breathed, so long as days came.  They comprised a whole.  They comprised a cycle.  They demonstrated God, and showed all of what God planned and would do.

In the evening, as light fell, came rest.  Work was done, and now it was over.  One can work only while there is light.  When morning came, the new day dawned, and the old was yet complete.

In the course of the cycles, God placed man.  Man had a home in the Garden, placed within the cycle.  God had a greater plan, within the changing climates.  Cool in the morning, hot in the noon sun, and cool in the evening.  Man worked, and God abode with man in the garden.

This was pleasing to God, and to man in the Garden.  Man lived in the place of his dwelling, dependant upon the day, the night, and the garden, all God’s.

God provided the light, and God provided the rest.  God provided the shade, and God provided the shelter.

Yet, Beyond this, Beyond the Fabric of time, lay God’s heart.

The closest God ever came to putting Himself in a box was the ark of the covenant through Moses.  Yet, it was so holy, that to come with your own thoughts, your own notions, or even your own sweat meant instant death in the presence of the Almighty.  Moses, one of the greatest prophets of God ever was also the meekest (Numbers 12:3), and God spoke to Him face to face, as a man speaks with a friend. He had no agenda of His own.

Yet, this same God that met Moses between the cherubim, who inserted Himself into time somehow to both speak to Moses and later to become flesh, stitched the universe together, and created the sun, the moon, the stars.  In their vast array, He created them, and saw that it was good.

Like the heartbeat of creation, evening and morning continue.  They mark our time, our days, and our years.  Even, in a sense, the demonic realm is subject to them, because the day of their judgments cometh.  Yet, just Beyond them, just Beyond that veil of time, lives a vast, vast realm of timelessness.  Eternity.

The Great God of all time, looking down, spending time with man, knows the sequence of the universe, and spelt it so for us.

And, so evening and morning, this day…  And, yet, Beyond, where time will cease, forever.