the Third Week after Easter
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Daily Devotionals
Day by Day Devotional - Year 1 of 5
Leviticus 25:20-38
"The land is mine", the LORD reminds His people, "for ye are strangers and sojourners with me" (v. 23). Just as a householder is responsible for his guests, God undertakes to look after the welfare of His people, and to give them in a miraculous way, every sixth year, a triple harvest, allowing them to keep the sabbath of years. The Christian is even less of a landowner down here than was Israel. If we always kept in mind this thought that nothing is ours, but that everything belongs to the Lord, would there not be less covetousness in our hearts and fewer quarrels between us? It is in heaven, not on earth, that we possess true riches, that which is our own (Luke 16:11-12).
In this whole chapter it pleases God to display His marvellous grace, showing us how He delivers His own, sees to their rest, to their happiness, takes care that they do not fall victims to their brothers’ hard hearts or to their own carelessness. And in all this He gives us an example, inviting us to show towards others the same mercy of which we ourselves are the objects (vv. 35-38). This would give us an opportunity to show the Lord that we appreciate His grace and that we have not forgotten what He has done for us. (cf. Matthew 18:32-33).
