Exodus chapter 20 verses 8 through 11 says, Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy. Six days shalt thou labor and do all thy work. But the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God. In it thou shalt not do any work, thou nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates. For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day. Wherefore the Lord blessed the seventh day and hallowed it.
We don't normally begin these devotionals with a four-verse reading, but that is the fourth commandment in its totality, a Sabbath rest for God's chosen nation. This commandment was given specifically to the Hebrew nation of Jews in Israel. Of the Ten Commandments given by Moses, this is one that is never given during any other dispensation.
There is no Sabbath rest commandment for the first couple, Adam and Eve, when they were in the Garden of Eden. There was no Sabbath rest commandment after the fall, when the first couple was evicted from the Garden and began offering blood animal sacrifices for sin. There's no Sabbath rest to Noah, Ham, Shem, or Japheth or their descendants when they came off the ark. There's no Sabbath rest commandment when Abraham is given the covenant of circumcision and the promise of the land of Canaan.
The fact is the seventh-day Sabbath rest doesn't appear until Exodus 16, when Moses instructs the Hebrews in regards to the manna. There is no mention of a Sabbath rest commandment during our present dispensation of the Gospel of Grace. Sunday is the pagan name for the first day of the week, and that's the Christian day of worship, according to the apostolic example given to us in the inspired text of Acts 20, verse 7.
And upon the first day of the week, when the disciples came together to break bread, Paul preached unto them, ready to depart on the morrow, and continued his speech until midnight. Sunday is not our Sabbath as many evangelicals, Protestants, Catholics, and cults teach. Sunday is a day of worship, but our Sabbath rest isn't a different day of the week from the biblical Sabbath on Saturday, the pagan name for the seventh day of the week.
Our Sabbath rest is Jesus himself. That's the message of Hebrews chapter four. Hebrews 4.1 says, let us therefore fear lest a promise being left us of entering into his rest, any of you should seem to come short of it. And then verses two and three explain, for unto us was the gospel preached as well as unto them, but the word preached did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in them that heard it. for we which have believed do enter into rest, as he said, as I have sworn in my wrath, if they shall enter into my rest, although the works were finished from the foundation of the world."
I would encourage you to read all 16 verses of Hebrews 4 to grasp the reality of what is meant by Hebrews 4.10. For he that is entered into his rest, he also hath ceased from his own works, as God did from his." Referring to the creation week.
We do not labor for salvation, but we labor in love for what Jesus did to save us. And we find our peace and rest in Jesus and his free gift of eternal life, having repented toward God with faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ, believing in his shed blood in death on the cross and his victory over death with his bodily resurrection from the grave. And our hearts are filled with thanksgiving as we rest our souls in Jesus to the glory of God the Father.
Psalm 92.1, if you look in most Bibles, it ought to tell you it's a psalm or song for the Sabbath day. And it simply says, it is a good thing to give thanks unto the Lord and to sing praises unto thy name, O Most High. And we agree in praise with the Apostle Paul's inspired words. in Colossians 1, 12 to 14, giving thanks unto the Father, which hath made us meet to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light, who hath delivered us from the power of darkness and hath translated us into the kingdom of his dear Son, in whom we have redemption through his blood, even the forgiveness of sins.
Be thankful.