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The pattern of human work and human limits — made on the sixth day, made for six days of labor and one of rest.
In Scripture
Six is the human number: our creation day, our work week, our limits. Jesus the carpenter sanctified six-day labor before His seventh-day rest.
“And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them. And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth. And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat. And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to every thing that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is life, I have given every green herb for meat: and it was so. And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day.”
Mankind is made on the sixth day — the number of our creatureliness.
“Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work:”
"Six days shalt thou labour" — work is dignified, and bounded.
“And whatsoever ye do, do it heartily, as to the Lord, and not unto men;”
Whatever you do, work heartily, as to the Lord.
Often a strength
Worth watching in prayer
A prayer for this pattern
Lord, let my work be worship, and my rest be trust.