Heaven's work never ceases, and men should never rest from doing
good. The Sabbath is not intended to be a period of useless inactivity.
The law forbids secular labor on the rest day of the Lord; the toil that
gains a livelihood must cease; no labor for worldly pleasure or profit
is lawful upon that day; but as God ceased His labor of creating, and
rested upon the Sabbath and blessed it, so man is to leave the
occupations of his daily life, and devote those sacred hours to
healthful rest, to worship, and to holy deeds. Desire of Ages, p. 207
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Oh yes, the Sabbath rest. Enacted for a reason no doubt. There's a sabbath within everyone of us, that we should naturally heed. Risk of getting tired and burned out is high if you don't. Natural laws, and that's the way God built us. Btw, God "rested" is not the sort of rest that you and I experience. That rest in the hebrew means to "seize activity or work" not so much that God himself needed to sleep. He never tires nor slumbers the Bible says.
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