Why I Believe What I Believe
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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