Then the land will yield large crops, and you will eat your fill and live securely in it. But you might ask, ‘What will we eat during the seventh year, since we are not allowed to plant or harvest crops that year?’ 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. 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. [Leviticus 23.19-22]
As I considered this passage today, it occurred to me that the blessing came before the obedience!
It appears that a person needed to be aware of the time he was living in and understand that the abundance of his sixth-year crops was for the purpose of resting on the seventh year.
How easy would it have been in that sixth year to squander the abundance of that year and totally be unprepared for the seventh year of rest?
It causes me to ponder about when God blesses His children today - is that for the reason of a rest to follow?
I know we are living now in New Testament times (new covenant) and that the old covenant has been fulfilled in Jesus (including the Law, the Sabbaths, and Festivals). However, I cannot help but believe there is still something meaningful in considering all the Old Testament practices and their spiritual meaning to us today.
Father, there is so much information that I 'glaze over' when reading the Bible. Forgive me for this error and help me to grow in my understanding of each and every detail provided in the Bible and live a New Testament Kingdom life worthy of Your pleasure!
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