Day 70
Biblical Principle -
Absolute truth from God’s Word:
Sabbath is not an Old Testament thing that does not apply
today. The idea behind the Sabbath
includes remembering how great God is as well as a rest that is much more than
a physical thing. The rest is the idea
of ceasing to do the work yourself. The
Christian walk is all about ceasing the work ourselves and putting our trust in
God’s power. What better rest than just following
God’s plan and resting in the fact that He will do the work and provide all
that is needed? When the children of
Israel obeyed God by storing up in six years to deal with the year of rest, the
seventh year; the children of Israel could rest and trust God during this
Sabbath year.
Lev 25:2-7 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto
them, When ye come into the land which I give you, then shall the land keep a
sabbath unto the LORD.
Six years thou shalt sow thy field,
and six years thou shalt prune thy vineyard, and gather in the fruit thereof;
But in the seventh year shall be a
sabbath of rest unto the land, a sabbath for the LORD: thou shalt neither sow
thy field, nor prune thy vineyard.
That which groweth of its own
accord of thy harvest thou shalt not reap, neither gather the grapes of thy
vine undressed: for it is a year of rest unto the land.
And the sabbath of the land shall
be meat for you; for thee, and for thy servant, and for thy maid, and for thy
hired servant, and for thy stranger that sojourneth with thee.
And for thy cattle, and for the
beast that are in thy land, shall all the increase thereof be meat.
Practical - Works
that apply Biblical Principle:
This section is for you to find a way to apply the truth in
your life. I will try to give only one as example; there may be other practical
ways. This is what makes the Christian walk so important and makes it important
to have a deliberate purpose in everything we do.
God is not telling us to stop
working and just pray that God provides all our needs. But the Lord is saying
that once a week and once every seven years and once every fifty years we
should remember that it has always been God who provided our needs because of
who he is. If we would take this
approach and teach our children to rest in God, we would not loose the next
generation. If we would make our life
one that always reminds us that God is ruler of all we would not soon turn to
“idols” things of this world.
Mat 6:25-34 Therefore I say
unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall
drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than
meat, and the body than raiment?
Behold
the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into
barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they?
Which
of you by taking thought can add one cubit unto his stature?
And
why take ye thought for raiment? Consider the lilies of the field, how they
grow; they toil not, neither do they spin:
And
yet I say unto you, That even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one
of these.
Wherefore,
if God so clothe the grass of the field, which to day is, and to morrow is cast
into the oven, shall he not much more clothe you, O ye of little faith?
Therefore
take no thought, saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or,
Wherewithal shall we be clothed?
(For
after all these things do the Gentiles seek:) for your heavenly Father knoweth
that ye have need of all these things.
But
seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things
shall be added unto you.
Take
therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the
things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.
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