I'm sorry that I've been away from this forum for so long.  I'd like to submit a portion of a sermon given by A. T. Jones just six months following the 1888 Minneapolis G.C. in reference to the Sabbath and its rest.  I was kinda relieved to find a comment that echoed what I've found in Scripture.

"Now let me notice another point. The commandment is not given, as men assert, because of man's physical necessities. Man's physical nature or needs are not considered at all. Man's spiritual nature alone is considered. Man is to rest simply because God did so, not because his physical nature needs it. Now, if a man works so hard that on the Sabbath he has to rest to refresh his body, is to violate the Sabbath instead of keeping it holy. If we come up to the Sabbath capable of taking delight in it, then we are blessed and able to keep it holy. The argument that man needs a day of rest in seven is a fraud and based upon a fraud. There is nothing in the commandment or its requirements in reference to man's physical wants. But suppose we come up to the Sabbath in a proper way, how are we to keep it when it comes? In Lev. 23:3, it is ordered that there shall be a holy convocation on that dayan assembly of the people, so that one of the duties is to have a meeting for God's praise and worship. Now I want to show that it is our spiritual needs and not our physical needs are considered. God did not rest because He was weary, hence His physical needs were not considered; neither are ours, as we rest because He did. Isaiah tells us so in Chapter 40:28. Nothing, then, which He gives can lessen what He has to give. Exodus 31:16,17 tells us why we should rest. The idea of God being "refreshed" is, in the Hebrew, that "He took delight in the creation He had formed," and this is certainly the only view of rest we can conceive of God. He being a spirit, it could only be a spiritual rest, and we rest because He did, then our rest must be a spiritual one, and the refreshing a spiritual refreshment. Let us turn to Exodus 20:12, and we have a proof of this." The speaker then read from the first chapters of Genesis to show how God saw all He had created as very good and delighted in it." Now then let us read why the Sabbath was given by reading Psalms 111:4. It is a sign by which we are ever to remember the Creator and why we keep His Sabbath. Now then how shall we keep it? Let us read Psalms 92:1,16, especially the last. God delighted in His work, and David says we are to be glad for the same reason, and we are to delight in it, that it lifts us up to God and Makes us know more of Him, His goodness and power. I am perfectly satisfied that God blessed the seventh day, and that there is a blessing goes with it that no other day has, and when we realize our duty to remember to keep it, we will feel this sacredness more than we do now."

If God was refreshed when initiating a spiritual rest for it on a physical seventh day, how much more fulfilled by seeing His creation restored in the lives of His repentant children?  We are told to begin preparing for the upcoming Shabbat immediately following the end of one at hand.  Thus we have six more days to implement the knowledge we are gaining to be further along in possessing the "restoration of the image of God" within us and be an even greater source of refreshment for our Father than on the next Shabbat. 

All heaven has been expended to provide for our restoration.  What better way to show our gratitude to God than to provide living thanks for the Truth and Grace given to us in amazing abundance and receive through His Spirit insights that can assist in growth for the remainder of our sojourn.