Why Do We Rest On Saturday?

Why Do We Rest On Saturday?

Why do we rest on Saturday

The seventh day of every week?

As on that day the Lord did stay,

And by His rest, made it unique.

For six days He would innovate

The details of the earth and sky

As, everything that He’d create,

His greatness was reflected by.

But when He rested from His task

So as to see what He brought out,

That was as though He were to ask

What was His handiwork about?

As all that He made out of naught

Of this and that, of less or more,

The Lord in seeing all He wrought

Considered what He made it for;

Which wasn’t only what He made,

Though wonderful as it might be,

The Sabbath being when he stayed

To see what He had made to see.

Not how He did what He had done

But why He did it He would rest,

So that the new world was begun

For what the old had to suggest.

What does the Sabbath signify

But that Creation doesn’t end

With how it works but rather why

Its meaning then has to transcend

Its being there that goes beyond

The contents of an earth and sky

To show there is a deeper bond

Between the object and the eye.