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Psalm 118:24

This is the day the Lord has made; let us rejoice and be glad in it.

How many of us know that we need not just a day of rest, but an age of rest, a lifestyle of rest? That is what Christ died for, Amen!

I had never seen this line from one of the Psalms as prophetic. I had thought it just meant rejoice in each day.

But in the context, the psalmist is prophesying about the sacrifice of Christ and tells us to rejoice in the day that has been made.

Did you know in the creation story, God actually consciously created a day? Days and nights were incidental with the creation story through the first six days but on the seventh day, God declared His work finished and consciously blessed and created a holy day of rest (Genesis 2:2)!

So when it talks about rejoicing in a day that has been made, let us see that it is the day of rest. The day God created after again declaring His work finished in the sacrifice of Jesus, was the created day of rest fully come. The power of sin may have disrupted the first day of rest but sin is now fully destroyed.

Nothing can take this age of rest away. Keep your mind of the benefits of the cross. Enter His life of rest that was created at the cross.

Prayer for this week: Father, thank you for your redeeming work. I want to know more about Jesus and how He has given me everything. No matter what happens, I can always rely on what was done for me at the cross.