"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." So we read in the second verse of the second chapter of Genesis. This inspired statement reveals the completeness and wholeness of the divine creation, man and the universe, forever manifesting and reflecting the fullness of divine Being. In conformity with His finished or complete expression is the definite inference that God also maintains His creation in perfect, continuous, and harmonious activity; for in no other way could God rest in omniaction.
To our present sense of things the construction of an object for use involves the care and maintenance of that object. Maintenance involves watching; and watching, translated into terms of spiritual thinking, signifies the protection of harmonious activity from anything that would claim to reverse, impede, or arrest such activity. Spirit, Mind, being the source of all real, spiritual activity, maintains its own manifestation in perfect harmony.
Because all activity is included in thought, it is not surprising that our Master and great Exemplar, Christ Jesus, lays such great stress on the necessity for keeping an effective watch, both for the unfoldment of clearer views of divine Mind and for the protection of consciousness from any sense of error or sin claiming to enter and becloud it. Our Master inferred that this twofold watch is virtually one watch when he said: "Watch therefore: for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come. But know this, that if the goodman of the house had known in what watch the thief would come, he would have watched, and would not have suffered his house to be broken up."
