If the Biblical commands are to be followed, and God's morality outweighs or controls our own, I must say I feel the law about not working on the Sabbath seems to be ignored for the most part.
Some of the laws found in the OT have now been set aside by many Christians - not stoning disobedient children, for example. Believers may show how Jesus' arrival on Earth fulfilled certain rules which only applied to the Jews of the time.
Can the same be said for the Sabbath law? I don't believe so. It still appears in the ten commandments, and I was under the impression those rules had to be followed today.
If all sins are equal, it's a little odd how we don't hear of any groups picketing at supermarkets every week with signs saying 'God Hates Sabbath Workers'. It's even odder how many Christians don't even follow the rule themselves.
What constitutes working on the Sabbath? Picking up sticks was enough to kill one man in the Bible. Shopping and gardening could be rather obvious examples. How about cooking, taking the dog for a walk, driving?
Can there be exceptions? Ambulance drivers, hospital staff, authors, pastors, sea rescue personel, firefighters? Which are allowed and which are not? If a job is allowed because it's a matter of life and death, couldn't shops be open too, for if someone has no food in and it's the Sabbath, the need to eat becomes a matter of life and death. If something goes wrong with a person's plumbing so that they cannot get drinking water, does this mean plumbers are allowed to continue working on the Sabbath?
I don't see the rule functioning in the real world. It's too difficult. It's completely impractical. Yet, if this is the law of the Almighty, why don't more people follow it, instead of conveniently ignoring it and focusing on the more easy to follow ones such as no stealing and no lying? I'm not saying there's anything wrong with working on the Sabbath, but then I'm not the one supposedly basing my life around the Bible.