10 “For six years you are to sow your fields and harvest the crops, 11 but during the seventh year let the land lie unplowed and unused. Then the poor among your people may get food from it, and the wild animals may eat what is left. Do the same with your vineyard and your olive grove.
12 “Six days do your work, but on the seventh day do not work, so that your ox and your donkey may rest, and so that the slave born in your household and the foreigner living among you may be refreshed.
13 “Be careful to do everything I have said to you. Do not invoke the names of other gods;do not let them be heard on your lips. Exodus 23: 10-13 NIV
Like the manna collected on the sixth day was provision and enough store for the Sabbath, so the harvest of the sixth year was sufficient to let the land rest in the seventh. What came from the ground in this year was not wasted, but rather given to those in need. It is hard to imagine such bounty, but it speaks much to the pride of our hands, greed of our hearts and the arrogance of a mind that would guide us to a caste like system. It is in giving that we often recognize that we have been given to, and it is on the Seventh day and in that Seventh year that we recognize where all things originate from. I thank God for showing me what I do have, and I thank Him for the rest that I have in His Son. It is also most often the poor of this world who are most willing to give, and those of us blessed with much who never seem to think we have enough.
So there remains a Sabbath rest for the people of God. 10For the one who has entered His rest has himself also rested from his works, as God did from His. 11Therefore let us be diligent to enter that rest, so that no one will fall, through following the same example of disobedience. Hebrews 4:10
13 When Jesus heard what had happened, he withdrew by boat privately to a solitary place. Hearing of this, the crowds followed him on foot from the towns. 14 When Jesus landed and saw a large crowd, he had compassion on them and healed their sick.
15 As evening approached, the disciples came to him and said, “This is a remote place, and it’s already getting late. Send the crowds away, so they can go to the villages and buy themselves some food.”
16 Jesus replied, “They do not need to go away. You give them something to eat.”
17 “We have here only five loaves of bread and two fish,” they answered.
18 “Bring them here to me,” he said. 19 And he directed the people to sit down on the grass. Taking the five loaves and the two fish and looking up to heaven, he gave thanks and broke the loaves. Then he gave them to the disciples, and the disciples gave them to the people. 20 They all ate and were satisfied, and the disciples picked up twelve basketfuls of broken pieces that were left over. 21 The number of those who ate was about five thousand men, besides women and children. Matthew 14: 13-21
It is from no other source that our increase comes. There are no other gods except those of our vain imagining, whether ourselves and we were made, superstition, and this created in the minds of those made, or matter which we have no sane call or logical pattern to see as anything else but created. Men will invoke a god of rain when it is dry. If the rain falls then they will build an altar, if it does not then they will invoke the sun god and ask that he refrain. Men will sacrifice their minds so much to these things that they become willing to sacrifice their fellow man. There is only One God, do not be deceived.
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