Read Exodus 20:8–11. What does the Lord tell us to do, and what reason are we told to do it?

In this passage God Commands the whole household to rest from their labor even animals.The reason that God asks this is beceause He also worked six days and rested on the Seventh-day. Each Sabbath that we rest rest, we celebrate the creation of the universe and the creator.

This commandment is also a carefully structured literary unit:

A. Introduction: "Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy" (vs. 8, NKJV).

B. Command: "Six days you shall labor and do all your work" (vs. 9, NKJV),

C. Motivation: "but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord your God" (vs. 10a, NKJV).

B1. Command: "In it you shall do no work: you, nor your son, nor . . ." (vs. 10b, NKJV).

C1. Motivation: "For in six days the Lord made the heavens and the earth, the sea, . . . and rested . . ." (vs. 11a, NKJV).

D. Conclusion: "Therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and hallowed it" (vs. 11b, NKJV).

(A) contains, as an introductory opening statement, the essential principle of the Sabbath commandment as a whole.

(B) conveys the positive command to engage in work on six days.

(B1) gives the corresponding prohibitive command of refraining from any work on the Sabbath day, including the inclusive application to the entire family. Even the domestic animals, as well as any guests in the home, are included.

(C) and (C1) supply the motivation for the commands. (C) acknowledges the time factor in the six-days/seventh-day sequence by emphasizing that "the seventh-day is the Sabbath of the Lord your God."

(C1) contains the formal motivation clause with the introductory "for" or "because." It presents the detailed motivation in terms of the Lord's six days of work and His resting on the seventh day, rooting it directly in the first Sabbath of Creation week.

(D) is an independent clause, starting with a "Therefore" and also forming the conclusion. The last words of the commandment, "and made it holy," correspond to the exhortation of the opening principle

(A) "to keep it holy." Both are linked to the holiness God endows the Sabbath with in Genesis 2:3.

Prayer:Lord God Almighty we thank you for your Sabbath. Help us to work six days that we may rest on the seventh. In Jesus name amen.

What four actions of God are recorded in Genesis 2:1–3 as He created the Sabbath?

The Bible records that on the Seventh-day God completed creating the heavens and the earth. God also rested on the Sabbath and He blessed the Sabbath, and sanctified it. God created a day specifically so that we could rest with him. In the Sabbath-day I see God calling out to his creation to celebrate what He has done in creation.

Notice how many times the phrase "the seventh day" is repeated in Genesis 2:1–3. What possible significance does that repetition have?

When the writer repeatedly mentions the Seventh-day it could be as a reminder that this is the day that God set apart for you humanity please don’t forget it.

Think about the march of time, how it sweeps us along moment my moment, day by day, and year by year. Though we have no control over time itself, what we can control to some degree is what we do with it. How well do you use your time? What things occupy your time? How might you use your time, the little bit you have here, better?

Time is the only comodity that we all in this world have the same amount of. I know that there are some things that I waste my time on and I should eliminate these things from my life. I must think about the things which are most important to me and invest my time in those things.

Prayer: Lord God Almighty, you knew what you were doing when you created us a Sabbath to rest and remember you. Father help us to please remember your Sabbath. Thank you in Jesus name Amen.