Genesis 2:1-14
"In six days the LORD made heaven and earth, and on the seventh day he rested and was refreshed" (Exodus 31:17). He Himself rejoices in the joy He has prepared for His creature.
In the creation, we admire the power of God, able to arrange the thousands of millions of stars in the vast expanse of the heavens, able to impose limits on the sea, able to control the forces of the lightning and the wind, able also to form man from a handful of dust (Psalms 8:3). We also admire His wisdom; He has measured out the times and the seasons; He has established a balance over all nature and given laws to the plants and instincts to the animals (Psalms 104:24). But let us also admire His kindness. He made the heavens, divided the land from the waters, established the sun, the moon and the stars, "for his mercy endureth for ever" (Psalms 136:1-26). With the tenderness of a mother who has prepared in advance everything that will be necessary for the child she is going to bring into the world, God places man in ideal conditions. He puts him in a garden of pleasure, where he will have nothing to do but to enjoy the rest and repose of his Creator. When God breathes into his nostrils "the breath of life," (v. 7) He makes him (different from the animals) a living and imperishable soul, answerable to Him.