New Year of Jubilee

Happy New Year!

2010 was a good year for me.  I've gotten more comfortable in my job (maybe even better, who knows).  I've kept great friends and made great friends.  I've had and lost roommates.  I've watched God miraculously heal someone I love.  I've had a great year.  Most importantly God has used people, circumstances and His Word to grow me this year.

As I look toward 2011 I hope it brings more of the same.  I don't want the same year, but I want to see God's imprint and fingerprints all over 2011 like 2010.

I also would love to see The Year of Jubilee.

Leviticus 25:8-12,  "Count off seven sabbaths of years... seven times seven years... so that the sabbaths of years amount to a period of 49 years.  Then have the trumpet sounded everywhere on the tenth day of the seventh month; on the Day of Atonement sound the trumpet throughout the land.  Consecrate the fiftieth year and proclaim liberty throughout the land to all its inhabitants.  It shall be a jubilee for you; each one of you is to return to his family property and each his own clan.  The fiftieth year shall be a jubilee for you; do not sow and do not reap what grows of itself or harvest the untended vines.  For it is a jubilee and is to be holy for you; eat only what is taken directly from the fields."

This is awesome!  God scheduled a revolution every 50 years for the people of Israel (there is no evidence that they ever did this).  This revolution may seem semi-socialist, because it is.

Why did God require The Year of Jubilee?  Simply, he wanted the people of Israel to remember that the land is not theirs exclusively but that it is His absolutely.  He can do with the land what he wants and what he wants is to set people on an even playing field every 50 years.

For us today this means that we can't think of our stuff as our stuff.  It is God's and He will do with it what He pleases.  Isn't that great?  It is great because He has a much better plan for our stuff than we do.

So I want 2011 to be The Year of Jubilee for me.  This is a scary request, but I want to want this (Do you feel like that sometime?  You want to want something).  He may take all I have or ask me to give all I have, but I've found that He is worth it.  I hope to find out in 2011 that He is even more worth it than I think now.

So Happy New!  Happy Year of Jubilee!  I hope your 2011 is filled with God.  So count your blessings from 2010 and prepare to be amazed by God in 2011 today!