Promises

I didn't think I would have a chance to write today, but my day has since slowed down for a little bit, I thought I'd write a note on a great passage from all places-- Leviticus. Please read below.

"If you want to live securely in the land, follow my decrees and obey my regulations. Then the land will yield large crops, and you will eat your fill and live securely in it. But you might ask, ‘What will we eat during the seventh year, since we are not allowed to plant or harvest crops that year?’ Be assured that I will send my blessing for you in the sixth year, so the land will produce a crop large enough for three years. When you plant your fields in the eighth year, you will still be eating from the large crop of the sixth year. In fact, you will still be eating from that large crop when the new crop is harvested in the ninth year." ~ Leviticus 25:18-22

Now I've had pretty busy day with everything going on around me. From caring for people in my household to trying to get my routine done, I have been up to my eyeballs with stress since last night. First were the thoughts of how I was going to get everything accomplished. Then came the doubt that God was going to help me through it all. Silly me...

So I have gotten through the worse of it all and have come to my senses how ridiculous I am to worry all the time. If you know me, that's one thing I tend to do. I worry for my family, friends, trying to get everything done and just right, and ya-di-ya-da. I've gotten better through the years, but I have yet to master that feeling I get in my stomach when all I want to do it turn and run away from it all...

Anyway! This passage from Leviticus came to me just now when I was trying to remember a passage from the Bible that was fresh and new to me on trusting God. Yeah, I've heard of Philippians 4:6-7, but I wanted to dig further into the promises God has always kept. Flashback to Leviticus, where if we consider all the rules and regulations God sets out for man to do, we should be awe-strucked by His holiness. Here God is giving the Israelites the laws. He tells them directions on what to do in pretty much every aspect of their lives. In this passage, He is telling them how to plant their fields, and it comes after the fact He told them by the seventh year of using a field, they were to give it one year to rest (just like the Sabbath day in a week). So did this mean that they are not to eat for an entire year? Of course not! He even went further to tell them to store away grain to eat for the coming year. So imagine being in the Israelites' shoes for moment. You are told to simply save a whole year's worth of grain and you will be alright until next year. For me, I would probably think something along the lines of "well what if the sixth year we have a bad year, and we cannot save enough?" or "what if we don't have enough to eat because we underestimate the amount we need?" and so on...

Thing is God said He would give them an abundance of crops that they would have enough for not just the seventh year, the year they would not plant, nor the eighth year, BUT the ninth year as well! Can you imagine God saying to you, "Obey me, and I show you beyond what you could expect." That's pretty much what He was saying to them (and us now), and when you think about it, these people were wondering in the wilderness for how long, when it was only a few day trip? They obviously had doubted God before and God telling them these things, they needed to choose to trust Him at His Word.

Today, think about what promises God has given you through His Word. Don't think the Bible is a man-written book that man wrote on his own terms. See it as the Divine Word of God who wanted us to live for and with Him. 

Okay, now I have to run to carry on with my busy day. Peace out!

 "All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness." ~ 2 Timothy 3:16