Last week, we were challenged to embrace change as Spirit-filled believers following God’s lead wherever and whenever He may take us. We were reminded from Ecclesiastes chapter three about how there is a time and season for everything in life.

A few weeks ago, we learned how God created everything with boundaries and how His moral boundaries should be just as valued and appreciated as His physical boundaries like the atmospheric boundary between our lungs and the vacuum of space and the separation of dry land from the oceans.

We can learn a lot about God from His creation. So much so that God’s word teaches us that not a single person who will ever live is without excuse for not knowing and worshipping Him!

Romans 1:20For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature—have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that people are without excuse.

When God created boundaries, He also created something else for our benefit, rhythm. Rhythm is a constant and recurring change. Sounds kind of contradictory, right?

Most of us first learned about rhythm at a young age learning how to clap put patterns. Constant and recurring change.

We learned last week about this same paradox that exists in God’s creation which also exists in Himself. He is constant and never changing, yet He rarely does the same constant thing the same way twice. Constant and recurring change.

God is our victor and He always wins His battles. However, nearly all of His victories won through the nation of Israel had different battle plans, some very unconventional ones, too!

God is our healer and Jesus healed every sickness and every disease of those who sought Him for it. However, He rarely healed them the same way twice.

Constant and yet changing – rhythm.

According to Genesis 1, on the very first day, God created day and night. Then on day four, He created the sun and the moon to govern those time periods. Every single day since then, the sun rises and the sun sets. There is day and there is night. A steady, predictable rhythm. A constant and recurring change.

Change happens, day turns to night. It is constant, there is day and there is night. It is recurring, day turns to night turns to day turns to night turns to day… A constant and recurring change.

This rhythm was created on day one for us, for our own good and benefit. We were created with the need to be awake for so long and then asleep for so long. If you think this isn’t important, then you’ve never worked swing shifts or lived in Alaska where this rhythm is routinely challenged.

God created everything over the period of six days and then chose to rest on the seventh day – another rhythm. He did it to set an example for us of how important it is to maintain a rhythm of working and resting.

He created other rhythhms as well. Generally speaking, we’re born, we marry, we have children, they marry, they have children, our children’s children marry and have children, then we die. God created everything to exist in a rhythm.

Now God didn’t need to take a day off and there isn’t any evidence that He has taken one of since. He did it to show us our own need to set a rhythm in life of work and rest.

He carried this rhythm into the ceremonial laws that He gave to Israel when He was defining them as a nation. Not only were they to take one day off each week, but they were also to plant and harvest for six years, then to give the fields a rest on the seventh year.

Then, after seven years of doing the seventh year rest, they were to take an entire year called the year of Jubilee.

This year was like a giant reset year for everyone. Slaves were set free, debts were cleared and forgiven, and property was returned to it’s original owner. They were not to sow nor harvest their fields, but to live straight from whatever the fields provided.

It was an exciting year of freedom, but also of trust in God’s