Where is God calling you to trust Him now? What is the classroom of opportunity He is offering to you, calling you to “stand still and see the salvation of the Lord?” What is He telling you to give or a place where you are to rest and let Him provide so things can be brought back to fresh order?

Since the Garden, God has been calling us to return to Him and trust Him. In fact, whether you realize it or not, everything in your life is orchestrated and designed to bring you back to Him. This is not punitive, but a sign of God’s intense love. He created you and knows that there is no better, safer, wiser, more prosperous place to be than resting in Him.

A Sabbath Rest

When the children of Israel were delivered from 400 years of bondage in Egypt, they were delivered not just “from” bondage but “to” the Promised Land. Along the way, God gave their leader, Moses, very deliberate instructions about how they were to function in the coming decades. These instructions were not intended to be restrictive but liberating and that would display the glory of God. They were laws, though, that would only work if they trusted God—if they allowed the God of heaven and earth in the equation.

One of those admonitions, given in Leviticus 25 was a complete rest to the land every 7th year and a total rest on the 50th year, the year of Jubilee. It was designed to give release to the land so it would not be overworked every seven years and on the 49th year, there would be a time of readjustment back to the original positions of things. This would bring a wonderful, natural order and harmony to the people and the land. Also, every seventh year it would be a reminder that this was not their land, it was His, and if they would tend it His way, He would always abundantly provide for them.

But How?

…is always the question. Our knowing God anticipated this question from His children and precluded it with an answer.

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