It is amazing that some people apply Paul's words to the Sabbath, but never to Sunday. Paul was not talking about either the Sabbath or Sunday. The context refers to the past pagan life of those Galatians converts: "Howbeit then, when ye knew not God, ye did service unto them which by nature are no gods. But now...how turn ye again to the weak and beggarly elements, whereunto ye desire again to be in bondage. Ye observe days, and months, and times, and years." Galatians 4: 8-10.
Paul rebuked his Galatians converts for turning "again" to idolatry, which means that they were slipping back into the observance of pagan "days, and months, and times and years." Thus the devil sought to draw them back to their old ways.
On the opposite side, the book of Galatians reveals that those new converts were also under attack from misguided Jewish believers who wanted every Gentile to "be circumcised" and "to keep the law of Moses" (Acts 15:1-5, & Galatians 2:3-4), which would include the observance of the yearly feasts of the ceremonial law (Passover, Feast of the Tabernacles, etc), which Paul rightly stated in Colossians 2:14-17 were nailed to the cross.
Paul was telling the Galatians converts to be careful and avoid observing the pagan practices, as similarly stated in Deuteronomy 18:9-14.
To apply Galatians 4:8-10 to the Sabbath of the fourth commandment is to twist the Scriptures!
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