Sabbath as Natural Order of All Creatures: We Are Dependent!
Leviticus 25:1-17 “Speak to the people of Israel and say to them, When you come into the land that I give you, the land shall keep a Sabbath to the Lord. 3 For six years you shall sow your field, and for six years you shall prune your vineyard and gather in its fruits, but in the seventh year there shall be a Sabbath of solemn rest for the land, a Sabbath to the Lord. You shall not sow your field or prune your vineyard. You shall not reap what grows of itself in your harvest, or gather the grapes of your undressed vine. It shall be a year of solemn rest for the land. The Sabbath of the land shall provide food for you, for yourself and for your male and female slaves and for your hired servant and the sojourner who lives with you, and for your cattle and for the wild animals that are in your land: all its yield shall be for food.
We are compelled to rest because we are creatures.
We live in permanent impermanence.
“When we breathe, we do stop inhaling because have taken in all the oxygen we will ever need, but because we have all the oxygen we need for this breath.” Wayne Mueller
(There is judgment against those who ‘add field to field’ (Isa 5:8)
