Does God get tired?

Dear Chaplain: Why did God rest on the 7th day? I thought God was God, why would he need to rest. — Signed, Is God Tired Dear Is God

Tired: Thank you so much for your question. It’s one many are curious about. According to the Bible, specifically Genesis 2:1-4, God made the heavens and earth in 6 literal days, and on the 7th day God rested.

“Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them. And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made. And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made. These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that the Lord God made the earth and the heavens.” (Gen 2:1-4)

When the text says that God rested in this scripture, it means that God ended his work, he stopped, he ceased from creating. God did not get tired and neither did he, nor does he ever, need to rest. God is God. He is the selfsustaining one, the all powerful one, the self-existing one.

He is the Creator of the universe who called everything into existence.

God finished his work on the 7th day and he separated the 7th day from the rest of the week (he made that day special, unique, different) and he blessed it and made it holy (for Godly use). When we work, at the end of the day or the end of the week, we stop working. We want to go home and enjoy our families and all the things we’ve acquired. God rested on the 7th day, not because he was tired but rather because he wanted to take time to enjoy all of the things that he made. And similarly, God does not want us to work around the clock, week in and week out. He’s instructed us to do as he did and to work 6 days, but on the 7th day stop our work to enjoy the fruits of our labor...and to remember him who created everything on the earth for us to personally enjoy, who also did the same. Ask the Chaplain is written by Rev. Dayna Spence, an ordained minister, licensed evangelist, and chaplain who’s served as a hospital chaplain and is currently serving as a hospice chaplain Chester County area. Please email “Ask the Chaplain” at 4thechaplain@gmail.com or write to, PO Box 1284, West Chester, PA 19380.