God's Rest and the Sabbath

I studied the concept of Sabbath rest this morning in the old and new testament and a new thought really hit me. This is fresh in my mind so if it doesn't make much sense to you, I am probably not making it clear. I'll just pray that God reveals it to you because I can't!
1) In the 10 commandments God told us to honor the Sabbath and keep it holy- setting aside a day of the week that we rest and put him first in our thoughts and lives. This hearkens back to God resting on the 7th day after creation. When it (his plan for his creation) was finished, he rested! This was a part of the old covenant and law that the Jews lived by in order to follow God.
2) God's people in typical fashion took a day made for their rest and enslaved themselves to it by creating laws to bog it down. The Sabbath became a day of religious restriction and was anything but restful for his people. God saw that his people were burdened down and he knew that they could not keep the law so he made an escape!
3) Jesus came to fulfill the law and in so doing also fulfilled the Sabbath. He illustrated that God's intent for the Sabbath was to point us to God and away from ourselves. With Jesus coming and setting up the new covenant of forgiveness and salvation, the old law was fulfilled. Jesus showed the Jews that they no longer had to keep the law or the Sabbath because he came to set them free. Jesus healed, taught, worked, cast out spirits and displayed the works of God on the Sabbath while he was here on earth. Suddenly the Sabbath became about doing things for the benefit of God's people and not about holding up destructive old laws full of bondage. As Mark 2: 27 says "The Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath.
4) By believing in Christ and becoming a child of God, we are not bound to the old covenant and keeping of the Sabbath but to the new covenant and to display God's works here on earth. So instead of being stuck with honoring 1 day (the Sabbath) believers should honor God in their hearts and lives each day. The Sabbath is no longer just one day but all day every day for the believer. While we may still meet together as a collective body on 1 day during the week, we are no longer in bondage to the Sabbath.
5) As believers we can rejoice in the true freedom of the Sabbath and literally partake in God's rest. Because he did all the work for our salvation we are under grace and not under the law so our hearts can always be at rest. This is eternal, deep, fulfilled rest! So even though I may be bustling about externally, I am always at rest internally because of the cross. Do you grasp the magnitude of this? I am at rest!!! I am always at Sabbath with God! These famous lyrics come to mind:
Jesus did it all; all to him I owe; sin had left a crimson stain; he washed it white as snow
Hebrews 4 sums it all up perfectly! Here are verses 9-11 (ESV): "So then, there remains a Sabbath rest for the people of God, for whoever has entered God’s rest has also rested from his works as God did from his. Let us therefore strive to enter that rest, so that no one may fall by the same sort of disobedience."
Enjoy some of God's rest today!