At least one indication of unbelief is the tendency to measure life's challenges against our own adequacy instead of God's promises. To enter our Sabbath rest, we must put an end to self-reliance - trusting in our own abilities to overcome difficulties, rise above challenges, escape tragedies, or achieve personal greatness.

God presents the Sabbath rest as a shelter we can enter. (Hebrews 4:1-11)

Thank God for the solitude of the Sabbath.

You will find rest on Sabbath day for your soul.

... Which of you shall have an ass or an ox fallen into a pit, and will not straightway pull him out on the sabbath day?

And he (Jesus) said unto them, The sabbath was made for man, and not man for the sabbath.

... it is lawful to do well on the sabbath days.

The [Jewish] Sabbath was not intended to be simply a desert of prohibitions, but rather an oasis for moral restoration and seemly pleasure-one was to eat, drink, even be merry.

Sabbath, n. A weekly festival having its origin in the fact that God made the world in six days and was arrested on the seventh.

Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work: But the seventh day is the sabbath of the Lord thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work.