There are several purposes to the Sabbath:
- To rest and recover from the week
- To devote yourself to God in corporate worship and have an excuse to seek Him personally (ex: I normally don't have time to spend studying a subject or topic, but on Sundays I can)
- To remember that your salvation is based on Jesus' work, not yours.
- To remember that time isn't an endless cycle of days, but it's a weekly cycle that is heading for New Heavens and Earth. We're heading for God's presence-filled new world, so we want to do the things that give us tastes of that world to come.
- To remember that we're not slaves to our work/job. God will provide for us and others even if we stop working on one day.
Sometimes it's good to keep it simple (don't do your primary job(s) and worship God). Other times it's awesome to remember that God's ways go very deep and are far-reaching in their implications.
