March 5, 2011 – Leviticus 25 - 25:38

2 things I think this really points to.  First, relying of God.  You can plant things for 6 years and for an entire year, you cannot.  They must rely on God to supply enough in the 6th year that they will have enough for the 7th.  God says not only will you have enough for that year, but I will supply enough in the 6th year to last 3 years.  We worry so much about our nest eggs and saving for the “what ifs” that we lose our faith in God.  Then again, we are called to spend responsibly.  There is a balance there that we need to find.  I guess we need to reflect on how much stoke we are putting in our nest egg.  Are you not contributing to charities now and instead putting money away.  But every time I write something like that I think about Paul’s and Baby Koetters’ college fund and wonder what I am suppose to do.  Something to think about. 

Second thing is the way this would take away our connection to material things.  Imagine that every 50 years everything would reset.  Would people work so hard to build up their mansions and large homes if they new that it wasn’t going to be permanent.  Wouldn’t they spend more time trying to make their quality of life better.  And not only that, but they would be teaching their children to live for themselves.  The whole idea of being born with a silver spoon in your mouth would disappear because that silver spoon might not be there for long.  Each would have to get by on their own merits.  People might say this would hurt human progress.  We wouldn’t have the skyscrapers, all the technology, our modern comforts if people couldn’t build on the generations before.  But I don’t think that is necessarily true.  All the information would still be there, but the distribution of the ubber-powerful and the poor would not be there.  And those that are in power would be there because they made it there, not because their dad knew someone else’s dad and the smartest most qualified would rise to the top.  I just think God knew what a human mentality was when He came up with this system and tried to develop something that tried to keep human ambition and greed in check.