Mark 2:27 And he said unto them, The sabbath was made for man, and not man for the sabbath:
Yesterday we connected the Sabbath with an expected end. God sat down on the 7th day and rested from all His labors. We connected the Sabbath to the Manna, the Bread of Life and the word never. We will never hunger and never thirst. For what?
Matthew 5:6 Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled.
Here at the core of putting our labors to an end is the end result. Righteousness, a right standing before God, the restoration of relationship which God set in motion from the very moment sin entered into the world.
One side note definition of Sabbath which I did not reference would be obscure if this understanding was not put first. The Sabbath is also call the Day of Atonement. The atoning work on the Cross by Jesus Christ put an end, a Sabbath end, to the law as the only way to a right standing before God.
Galatians 2:16 Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by the faith of Christ, and not by the works of the law: for by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified.
So, if this be a sign unto God that we honor, hold sacred, and sanctify the Sabbath, how can we do so if our labors have been put to an end? Might I suggest the gathering of a double portion of the Manna from Heaven as instructed in Exodus 16, but not because of any law.
Ephesians 3:19 And to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fulness of God.
Fill up on the Bread of Life to begin your day, Sabbath or not.