Prepare: Be careful of what you speak.
Read: Exodus 23:1-19
Consideration: Treating people justly would seem to be an easy thing to so, but the sinful human heart can lead us astray with rumours (2 Cor.13:1), false witnesses and bribe. A gossiper is as bad as a murderer, a thief, or an adulterer in your midst, yet in our society a gossiper gets by easily.
Conservation: The Sabbath was God's special gift to Israel to mark the nation as His holy people (Ex.31:13-17). It was also His gift to man and beast to provide needed rest. The Sabbatical Year showed His concern for the land and the poor. It is unfortunate that people today have forgotten these lessons and are destroying creation by their exploitation of resources. The year of Jubilee is also called the year of liberty. Every fiftieth year, the Hebrews who had been forced to sell themselves into slavery became free. Lands that had been sold reverted to their original owners.
Celebration: God wants His people to celebrate and rejoice in His goodness. Three times a year all the Hebrew males were to appear before the Lord God in Jerusalem. There were three feasts that were to be celebrated: 1. The Feast of the Passover; 2. The Feast of Pentecost; 3. The Feast of Tabernacles. The Feast of the Passover, you will recall, was instituted in memory of Israels's preservation from the last plague brought against the land of Egypt and her deliverance from that land of bondage.
Respond: Help me to hide Your Word in my heart.
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