Revert To Original Settings

Leviticus 25:20-22 says, “You may ask, “What will we eat in the seventh year if we do not plant or harvest our crops?”  I will send you such a blessing in the sixth year that the land will yield enough for three years.  While you plant during the eighth year, you will eat from the old crop and will continue to eat from it until the harvest of the ninth year comes in.”

Observation: The year of Jubilee was an amazing event. Every 50th year everything would revert back to the original setting. It’s like when you are working on a compute file. You can make changes to a file but if you don’t like what was done you can revert back to the original settings. God did this in Israel. It was applied to land, people, possessions. In the above passage God commands that every 7th year they are not to plant anything in the land. He assures them that He will take care of them by providing food that will last until the 9th year. And there was a practical reason for letting the land rest. Has anyone ever read “The Grapes of Wrath?” You’ll remember that the “dust bowl” was created by over planting and not allowing the land to rest. God is brillant, He knew this because the land belonged to Him!

Application: So check this out, the point of Leviticus 25 in my opinion is that everything God gives to man is a gift based upon a promise. And it all belongs to God and is from God and maintained by God. Man has no control. And when he thinks he does, God will revert it back to the original settings. God wants us to know that eternal life is a gift from Him, and even when we abuse it, it will revert to the original settings and keep us in alignment with God. God will provide in every instance. Everything! And just so we know there will be times in our life where we must totally rely on Him providing, just as Israel had to do every 7 years.

Prayer: Thank you God for those times when I mess things up, but you revert my life back to the original setting you had planned for me.