Sit Down, Shut Up... Behar - On the Mountain From CG Workbook Five, Volume 3, Vayikra Have you noticed that the American government has much in common with the Torah? I never understood the principle of paying farmers not to plant or cultivate crops until I read this Torah portion. Although the point of government interference is price manipulation, Adonai’s purpose is faith-building. Think how many times an Israelite farmer is commanded not to plant, sow, harvest or reap in the course of his life. There are Shmittah years every seventh year, the 50th Yovel (Jubilee) year, and the instruction of the circumcised trees. Much of a disciple’s walk with Yeshua is disciplining himself to do nothing but enjoy God’s goodness. Israelite farmers can sit back and watch how HE tends a garden. I think of these teachings as “cool of the evening” conversations with our Abba. As long as we’re working, He won’t. We offer the work of our six days or six years and stroll with Him, watching Him perfect the work we’ve offered. He takes the number of a man, our six, and completes it in seven. One of the greatest acts of faith that Adonai enjoins upon Israel is to rest from farming and debt collection in the seventh year. Although it applies only to the land proper of Israel, imagine the faith it would take for every farmer in America not to plant every seventh year and for every lending institution to cancel debt! The farmer has to sit down and the bankers have to shut up! Although I garden because I enjoy the fresh produce, my parents were products of a generation who lived through the Great Depression on what they grew. Talk to your grandparents and great-grandparents about that era and ask them what they would have thought about not planting a garden every seventh year. It would have taken great faith.
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