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The concept of blessing pervades the everyday life of Christians—from testimonies recounting God’s provision, to praise songs, to wishing someone well. In fact, the term has been so integrated into Christian language that it is rarely considered thoughtfully. In the pages of Scripture, blessing seems to be either physical or spiritual, but a fuller biblical-theological approach reveals that God’s...

work on the seventh day.15 Genesis 2:3 reads, “So God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it God rested from all his work that he had done in creation.” What immediately stands out against earlier blessings is that this passage presents the blessing through a narrator telling us that “God blessed” without any notion of a spoken benediction. And second, the recipient of the blessing is not a living creature, but a day. What does it mean to bless a day? At first glance it may seem
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