Jon Collins

And that's kind of like the Exodus version.

So every seventh day, remember that humans are not in charge.

Your labor isn't determining the future of the universe.

You can stop and rest.

You're not a work machine.

You're a human image of God.

Which means there is coming a time of rest, and you can stop and enjoy a taste of that future rest right here in the present.

Yeah.

Yes.

And then the Deuteronomy version comes along and adds to the creation story, the Exodus story, and says the Exodus story is in a way God working to liberate his people so that they can enjoy this rest.

And how remarkable that the foundation story of God's covenant people in the story of the Bible is God noticing the outcry of oppressed slaves, liberating them from an imperial oppressor and then elevating them to the role of his spouse and marrying a human community and appointing them as priests and rulers.

That is such a remarkable story.

And that is essentially a way of thinking about what the creation story is.

God elevating a dust creature to a place of God's representative image and to be a royal kings and queens over creation.

But lest they forget that they are not God, the weekly Sabbath forces you to stop.

So what I love is the Deuteronomy version kind of throws it in your face in a really communal way to say like,

During the six days, human communities, we tend to operate and make up stories about how you belong to me.

You know, about how profit is the name of the game.

Yes.

Yeah.