Leviticus 25:3-7
For six years you shall sow your field, and for six years you shall prune your vineyard and gather in its fruits, but in the seventh year there shall be a Sabbath of solemn rest for the land, a Sabbath to the Lord. You shall not sow your field or prune your vineyard. You shall not reap what grows of itself in your harvest, or gather the grapes of your undressed vine. It shall be a year of solemn rest for the land. The Sabbath of the land shall provide food for you, for yourself and for your male and female slaves and for your hired worker and the sojourner who lives with you, and for your cattle and for the wild animals that are in your land: all its yield shall be for food.
Tag: God Provides Assurances When We Express Fear
Imagine any corporation in America stating the following to their workers:
“We are going to work for six years straight to make our products. But, on the seventh year we are not going to work. The company will be completely shut down, every seventh year. We will open up again the eighth year, but no income will be available as we have to get production going, sales up, etc.”
Can you imagine such a suggestion from Corporate America. In the above text the people of God are being told by God to give the land they produce all their food from a rest every seven years. That would mean, in the eighth year they have to plant again and would have no crops to eat since the seventh year was a no planting and harvesting year. The people of God were fearful they would have nothing to eat, if they were not allowed to plant. They needed some assurances. God does that for us. When we fear, He assures us. God tells them that, as they obey in faith to do His will, He will provide. He will give them enough in the sixth year that the food will still be available as they plant in the eighth year. This instruction calls for much faith. It calls for a trust on the part of the people of God that God would, as He assures them, provide. We can rightly sing with the song writer:
“Blessed assurance, Jesus is mine. Oh what a foretaste of Glory Divine.”
When we are fearful, God assures us with a promise we must believe in faith. We can trust God because He cannot lie. Our faith is founded in the character of God. He does not fail us.
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