Daily Devotions
My Song In The Night (Exodus)
我夜间的歌曲《出埃及记》
Text: Exodus 23: 10-11
MEDITATION
Exodus 23:10-11
10 Six years you shall sow your land and gather in its produce,
11 but the seventh year you shall let it rest and lie fallow, that the poor of your people may eat; and what they leave, the beasts of the field may eat. In like manner you shall do with your vineyard and your olive grove.
MEANINGFUL APPLICATION TO LIFE
1. The Sabbath principle
a. The Sabbath was not just a day.
b. There was a principle behind it.
c. The principle would become a law in the land.
2. The Sabbath year
a. This law would be implemented when Israel entered Canaan.
b. They must seek to practise:
i. The Sabbath principle
ii. The Sabbath Day law
3. Sowing and Reaping
a. Canaan had good fertile soil.
b. Agrarian economy
This was common in those days.
c. The land may be fully utilised:
i. Sowing
ii. Reaping (gathering the produce.
4. The seventh year
a. The land must be allowed to go fallow.
b. The land can be overworked.
c. The land needs to rest too.
d. The land would include:
i. Vineyards
ii. Olive groves
5. The beneficiaries
a. The poor people who may be hired:
i. To till the ground.
ii. To sow the seeds.
iii. To gather the produce.
b. “The beasts of the field”
i. They worked hard to help the farmers.
ii. They need this break too.
6. What lies beneath this Sabbath principle
a. Understanding of the land.
b. Kindness for the poor and beasts of the field.
c. Faith in the Lord to provide:
i. A harvest good enough to last through the fallow year.
ii. God’s provision.
iii. God’s protection.
经文：出埃及记23：10-11
沉思
《出埃及记 23：10-11》
10 “六年你要耕种田地，收藏土产，11 只是第七年要叫地歇息，不耕不种，使你民中的穷人有吃的，他们所剩下的，野兽可以吃。你的葡萄园和橄榄园也要照样办理。