Leviticus 25:18-22 - You will dwell in the land securely

25:18,19

If the people would follow the Lord’s commands and be careful to obey His laws, then things would go well for them in the Land. The land would yield its crops and they would dwell in safety. When we obey the Lord things tend to work, when we don’t obey Him things tend not to work. This applies at a national level as well. In the United Kingdom, and the West as a whole, we have abandoned God, rejecting His ways as fast as we can. The result is that nothing seems to work anymore. In such a state it really doesn’t matter that much whether a government follows conservative, social democratic, or socialist policies, they won’t work. We need, as a nation, to repent.

25:20-22

The laws concerning the Sabbath, whether it be the weekly Sabbath, but especially the seventh year, raise the natural question “what will we eat in the seventh year?”. One might imagine that we can manage a day without working, but a whole year without tending the crops?! The Lord declares that in the sixth year God will send an abundance of crops, so that they have enough for three years. It is three years, because it was not just a matter of not harvesting in the seventh year, but not planting either. The fundamental point is that it is God who provides for us. This does not mean that we don’t work, we must work, but according to His plans.