The perfect rest of God is doing the work of God, and that is the eternal calling that awaits his people. We see that glorious situation here, right in the beginning, in Genesis 1 and 2. God puts man in the garden, at perfect rest, in perfect harmony, to work under his direction. He speaks his gracious words of command to human beings, and the man and the woman respond obediently to God’s direction. That’s the visible form, if you like, of their trust in God, the visible form of expressing that right