He rested?

By the seventh day God had finished the work he had been doing; so on the seventh day he rested from all his work. And God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it he rested from all the work of creating that he had done. Genesis 2:2-3

I do not know why God rested on the 7th day. Maybe because he got all his creation work done in six days and just didn't know what to do on the 7th day, so he rested. I know our bodies need rest to function. I like the fact that there are weekends to "rest" from our weekly vocations. Going without rest can make some people really cranky...I won't mention any names. Jesus even needed a rest from the people that were crowding in upon him. When you make homemade rolls, you have to let the dough rest....so that it can do its thing and rise. I'm told that a baseball pitcher has to rest his arm for three days if he throws 85 pitches in a game. Our young ones can't go a whole day without taking a rest, a.k.a. a nap. Okay, enough of the random thoughts. If "rest" is something that God would like us to experience, I think I need to find out more about it. I hope that you'll join me the remainder of this week as I try to find out more about this whole notion of rest.