The life of Jesus, it turns out, brings full circle the Sabbath rest of God in creation. God rested on the seventh day when he created the world. Likewise, Jesus, as he re-created the world through his death and resurrection, rested on the seventh day—Holy Saturday. There, in a holy, borrowed grave, Jesus rested as his Father did at creation. Sabbath is, indeed, a little death, a secret station of the cross forgotten by culture and the church.
Sabbath as death
