Perhaps you have a misunderstanding for God's love language.
I am going to post the Ten Commandments again for reference....
The Ten Commandments - And God spoke all these words, saying: “I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. “You shall have no other gods before Me. “You shall not make for yourself a carved image—any likeness of anything that is in heaven above...
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The Ten Commandments
20 And God spoke all these words, saying:
2 “I
am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of [
a]bondage.
3 “You shall have no other gods before Me.
4 “You shall not make for yourself a carved image—any likeness
of anything that
is in heaven above, or that
is in the earth beneath, or that
is in the water under the earth; 5 you shall not bow down to them nor [
b]serve them. For I, the Lord your God,
am a jealous God, visiting[
c] the iniquity of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth
generations of those who hate Me, 6 but showing mercy to thousands,
to those who love Me and keep My commandments.
7 “You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain, for the Lord will not hold
him guiltless who takes His name in vain.
8 “
Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. 9 Six days you shall labor and do all your work, 10 but the seventh day
is the Sabbath of the Lord your God.
In it you shall do no work: you, nor your son, nor your daughter, nor your male servant, nor your female servant, nor your cattle, nor your stranger who
is within your gates. 11 For
in six days the Lord made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that
is in them, and rested the seventh day. Therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and hallowed it.
12
“Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long upon the land which the Lord your God is giving you.
13 “You shall not murder.
14 “You shall not commit adultery.
15 “You shall not steal.
16 “You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.
17 “You shall not covet your neighbor’s house; you shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, nor his male servant, nor his female servant, nor his ox, nor his donkey, nor anything that
is your neighbor’s.”
If you notice not all of the commandments start off with "you shall not" one of those being the Sabbath commandment. While it is still a commandment God never said "thou shalt keep My Sabbath day holy" so if you are looking for that as a reason to not keep the Sabbath in the NT you will not find that as a reason in the OT, but yet it is still a commandment of God.
The highest respect you can give someone is when you honor what they ask. This is the ultimate sacrifice of love. It's like when a parent asks their child to remember to be home at a certain time - when a child does what their parent asks, it shows an act of love and honor.
We are told to honor our father and mother, and this also includes our Heavenly Father. How do we honor God in scripture? Through the Sabbath commandment.
Isaiah 58:13 “If you turn away your foot from
the Sabbath,
From doing your pleasure
on My holy day,
And call
the Sabbath a delight,
The holy
day of the Lord honorable,
And shall honor Him, not doing your own ways,
Nor finding your own pleasure,
Nor speaking
your own words,
The Ten Commandments are not something us humans can arbitrability decide on the ones we should keep. They were never given as multiple choice or suggestions, while God did not start off with the Sabbath as thou shalt not, it is still a commandment of God and we should treat it as such because it is God's will for us, that we keep His Sabbath day holy. God placed the Ten Commandments in a unit of Ten written in stone by His very own Finger Exodus 31:18 and said we cannot edit His commandments in any way Duet 4:2. God writes His laws in our hearts and minds in His New Covenant promise that Jesus mediates, and God identifies His commandments right in the Ten, so it's not up to us to pick the ones we like because we cannot add or subtract from this unit of Ten. The Sabbath is written throughout the NT and Jesus speaks of the Sabbath as it would be kept long after He ascends back to heaven for His people so this one commandment that God deemed holy and blessed and identifies as MY HOLY DAY and God said REMEMBER, out of love we need to honor what He asks.
The Ten Commandments are the work of God alone Exodus 32:16 and are kept in the holies of holy in God's Temple where He dwells. The earthy Temple is just a miniature of God's heavenly Temple
Hebrews 8:2.
Hebrews 8:5 and God placed His will and testimony in the ark of the covenant right under His mercy seat and it is what we will be judged by. James 2:10-12
The Sabbath is the one commandment that has to do with time. God wants to spend time with His children and only ask for a full 24 hours every Sabbath to spend time with us. It's the only day God blessed and sanctified, which means to be set aside for holy use. He gave us 6 other days to do all thy work and labors. Exodus 20:9
There is no scripture that says we do not have to keep the Sabbath commandment. Today is our test to see if we can be brought to God's holy mountain. God asks so little of us but obedience to Him and His commandments is one of those things He asks, because it shows that we love Him. 1 John 5:3 Exodus 20:6 John 14:15, John 15:10 and have faith Romans 3:31 Revelation 14:12
Isaiah 56
Thus says the Lord:
“Keep justice, and do righteousness,
For My salvation
is about to come,
And My righteousness to be revealed.
2 Blessed is the man who does this,
And the son of man who lays hold on it;
Who keeps from defiling the Sabbath,
And keeps his hand from doing any evil.”
3 Do not let the son of the foreigner
Who has joined himself to the Lord
Speak, saying,
“The Lord has utterly separated me from His people”;
Nor let the eunuch say,
“Here I am, a dry tree.”
4 For thus says the Lord:
“To the eunuchs who keep My Sabbaths,
And choose what pleases Me,
And hold fast My covenant,
5 Even to them I will give in My house
And within My walls a place and a name
Better than that of sons and daughters;
I will give [
a]them an everlasting name
That shall not be cut off.
6 “Also the sons of the foreigner
Who join themselves to the Lord, to serve Him,
And to love the name of the Lord, to be His servants—
Everyone who keeps from defiling the Sabbath,
And holds fast My covenant—
7 Even them
I will bring to My holy mountain,
And make them joyful in My house of prayer.
Their burnt offerings and their sacrifices
Will be accepted on My altar;
For My house shall be called a house of prayer for all nations.”
God delights when we keep His Sabbath holy- should we not want God to be delighted in us?
Isaiah 58:13
“If you turn away your foot from
the Sabbath,
From doing your pleasure on My holy day,
And call
the Sabbath a delight,
The holy
day of the Lord honorable,
And shall honor Him, not doing your own ways,
Nor finding your own pleasure,
Nor speaking
your own words,
14
Then you shall delight yourself in the Lord;
And I will cause you to ride on the high hills of the earth,
And feed you with the heritage of Jacob your father.
The mouth of the Lord has spoken.”
The Sabbath commandment is in God's heavenly Temple along with the other 9 commandments to make the complete "Ten Commanments" which is why the Sabbath does not end at the cross and continues forever just as God promised. The question is will we do God's will which is not different in heaven than it is on earth and God wrote His will for us in our hearts. Psalms 40:8 Hebrews 8:10 and minds which means we are a doer of God's will James 1:22, Revelation 22:14
Isaiah 66:23 And from one Sabbath to another,
All flesh shall come to worship before Me,”
says the Lord.
Happy Sabbath all!