Genesis: Foundational Truth, God's Day of Rest, 2:1-3

Last week, we finished the active creation week. God made the birds, fish, land animals and mankind. Creating mankind was the pinnacle of creation week.
Only mankind was made in the image of God. Only mankind was created to have relationship with God. Only mankind was given the privilege and responsibility to govern God’s creation.
Chapter 1 ends with God declaring that His creation was “very good”—exceedingly pleasant.
Chapter 2 opens (it really should be part of Chapter 1) with this all-powerful Creator doing something surprising, He rests. This rest is so important that He makes this the model for the way people experience life (6 days of work, 1 day of rest/worship).
Lets take a few moments to explore the passage and then see what we can learn about God, and what we can apply to our daily lives.