In darkness was
It long concealed
Infested with
Untruth its field
Prevented was
This fruit to yield
Which freely now
Is here revealed

Attentive be
Therefore, and heed
What follows here
For you to read
Invited are
You to proceed
Adapting it
To word and deed

A new volume of earth’s history, therefore, could now begin the composition of its first chapters. For God had made commencement of his “new” essential rôle¹.

For on the seventh of the universe’s days, earth’s nascent history recorded something, that it had yet to see, and never could have witnessed: For the first time in all eternity, God began maintaining, sustaining, and preserving his entire creation, including the human, and all so included.

Until the seventh day, six days had passed: All of which had witnessed the Creator’s making, and shaping, disclosing all the while, that his creation had not yet been sufficiently completed. It had been inadequately, partially finished.

In unprecedented contrast to the first six days, however, the seventh day watched, as the Creator set aside his implements of creation, and mainly spent the continuity of that day, without creating anything, except continuity. While not creating any new material entity, God occupied himself throughout most of the seventh day for the first time, doing nothing more than managing, and attending to that, which he himself had created, and made. And thus he established, and set an urgent precedent…

A. He Is Maintaining

Throughout the remaining days of the universe, its Creator was to assume an identity as something much more than merely a Creator:

“Because: Throughout six days, Yahweh made the heavens and the earth, the sea and all, which is in them. And he placed them in the seventh day” (deMSby Exodus 20:11).

Due to what God did throughout the seventh day, the Creator and Maker of “the heavens and the earth, the sea and all, which is in them” was actually and viably from that day forward the one, who is nurturing them, and is sustaining them.

He is maintaining them. He is preserving them.

He alone their sustenance and continuity is. And justification is this of further contemplation…

B. Seemingly Spontaneous

Beginning with the seventh day’s “ceasing” or “sabbath” of what he “created for the sake of further use” (deMSby Genesis 2:3), Yahweh God personally initiated this “placing” and re-placing of his entire creation in each new day: A seemingly spontaneous and “automatic” sequence of elemental synergy and cosmic co-action was divinely motivated through God’s having initially “placed”, and arranged “the heavens and the earth, the sea and all, which is in them” in the seventh day:

“For throughout six days, Yahweh made the heavens and the earth, the sea and all, which is in them. And he placed them in the seventh day” (deMSby Exodus 20:11).

Conducting, and directing every element of the universe, God began pervasive supervision and management of both the inanimate as well as the animate, the living and “not living”, all, that exists…

C. “Ever-Fashioning”

Installing as an infinite diversity of issue, this “placing” and re-placing might be described as the orbit of the planets, the atomic movement within molecules, the tides of the seas or the changing of the seasons. Likewise, those with whom one shares a congested intersection, the student-aged clerk behind a fast-food counter, the coming of the milkman, your rising from a night’s rest, or the man, approaching you on a narrow walk-way are all equally viable perspectives of this “placing”. But even this gravely underestimates its pertinence, and altogether understates the sphere of its occurrence.

As divulged by the wording of Exodus 20:11 (deMSby), and adapted in Isaiah 65:17 (deMSby), Yahweh God is in effect “ever-creating new heavens and a new earth”, “ever-fashioning” them (deMSby Isaiah 66:22), and ever attending to them, and is ever-watchful, and concerned for their inhabitants. And this is not entirely how tradition has perceived him.

This is not how many people see God, and envision his station and realistic rôle: For when he is sometimes depicted as “once having ‘turned’ the universe ‘on’, and thereafter involving himself with it ‘only every thousand years or so'”, Exodus 20:11 (deMSby) remonstrates so deviate a misperception of him.

It totally dismisses such a notion of God. And it catechizes rather with far greater vision and much more perspective of his quite immediate involvement and attendance.

Indeed, conveying its extraordinary vision and wisdom, its reassuring truth is the basis and the premise of the promise in Psalm 118:24 (deMSby):

“This is the day Yahweh has made: We should be cheerful and glad about it”…

And now can you see why this must be true, and how realistically this perceives God.

D. All Like Us

For according specifically to Exodus 20:11 (deMSby), you, I, all like us and our world at this instant are Yahweh God’s immediate occupation, his involvement and agenda. From this, there is nothing, that distracts his attention, or in some way interrupts, or interferes with this his attentiveness.

It is logical and prudent, that you learn, therefore, to welcome even your darkest and gloomiest of nights as the promise and assurance of yet another day’s light. Why?

“Because: Throughout six days, Yahweh made the heavens and the earth, the sea and all, which is in them. And he placed them in the seventh day” (deMSby Exodus 20:11).

And he “placed them”, and arranged them in every single day from that day on, as continues “this day”. As emerges, consequently, through Exodus 20:11, your existence “this day” and allotment “this day” are a matter of God’s personal involvement with you, as applies with both the presence and allotment of any person…

E. And Any Person?

What, then, assumes this, regarding any other person with whom we co-inhabit this world? How are you and I delegated, and challenged by Exodus 20:11 (deMSby), when we involved are with other people, and any person, whom we encounter, convene with, and meet “this day”?

¹This, of course, assumes, that one’s knowledge and understanding of God, the Almighty derive from the de MontSabbathby Version of Exodus 20:11 and all pertinent scriptures.