Daily Reading
Leviticus 25
Psalm 25-26
Acts 22
God, I Can’t Rest. You Don’t Understand How Busy I Am!
Scripture
18 “If you want to live securely in the land, follow my decrees and obey my regulations. 19 Then the land will yield large crops, and you will eat your fill and live securely in it. 20 But you might ask, ‘What will we eat during the seventh year, since we are not allowed to plant or harvest crops that year?’ 21 Be assured that I will send my blessing for you in the sixth year, so the land will produce a crop large enough for three years. 22 When you plant your fields in the eighth year, you will still be eating from the large crop of the sixth year. In fact, you will still be eating from that large crop when the new crop is harvested in the ninth year. (Lev 25:18-22)
Observation
God wants us to rest. The Sabbath day is for us to rest, the Sabbath year is for the land to rest, and the Year of Jubilee is to remind us that everything we “own” does not belong to us, but to God (“You are only foreigners and tenant farmers working for me.” v.23) This is an obvious simplification. God said we will be blessed if we rest. It is important to Him and should be important to us. Why don’t we do this? It seems such an easy task, and fun.
Application
Sheryl’s translation: “If you want to be blessed in what you do, love Me and follow my commands. Then your business will be successful and you will be secure. ‘But God (insert whiny voice here), how am I to be successful if I don’t work? It takes 25 hours a day for me to accomplish everything. If I take one whole day off a week, my business will fail, my security will fail, my kids will go hungry, I won’t be able to by the latest DS game!’ Oh, silly little disciple, be assured that I will send my blessing to you. I will make up the time you feel you have lost and there will be enough time left over! You will be way more successful in 6 days doing things MY way than you ever could dream of in the 7 days YOUR way! In fact, you will even have enough time left over the following morning that you can spend even more with ME! Imagine that! My economy is not the economy of this world.”
Prayer
Oh God who stands outside of time, help me to apply this truth. Give me the strength to live this out in my own life and not just talk about it. Take over my calender, my agenda, and prioritize it to fit into Your kingdom, not mine. Amen.
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