3 August 2013 - jubilee
May the nations be glad and exult
because you rule the peoples in equity;
the nations on the earth you guide.
This is no a God who can be relegated to merely subjectivity and feelings. He is a God who matters in the affairs of nations. The heart of every ruler is before him. They each hear his call on their conscience, no matter how dull or acute it is for them. Even Herod vaguely hears it in his guilt over the death of John the Baptist.
He has been raised from the dead;
that is why mighty powers are at work in him.”
That is why even the so-called secular ordered must be sanctified by the gospel. There is no part of society which doesn't need to be treated from a gospel worldview. This is why the LORD establishes jubilee years in the Old Testament. They reveal the priority of the sacred even in the very heart of the secular.
In this fiftieth year, your year of jubilee,
you shall not sow, nor shall you reap the aftergrowth
or pick the grapes from the untrimmed vines.
Therefore let us pray for our leaders. Let us not be Christians only in the subjective areas of our lives but in all things, with unity and integrity. When we see this unity may we proclaim with the psalmist:
The earth has yielded its fruits;
God, our God, has blessed us.
May God bless us,
and may all the ends of the earth fear him!
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