DAY 50

JUBILEE!

Leviticus 25 and Mark 1: 23-45

I’ve been waiting, waiting to get to this chapter to share it with you. I feel like I have been harping on the theme that God is creating a new people and in some ways chapter 25 of Leviticus makes this clear. It is the Year of Jubilee. In that year: liberty is proclaimed to the captives, property is returned, those who sold themselves into service are set free – their debts are cancelled – it is the year of Jubilee.

Another way to describe this is to think of a game of monopoly. At some point after one person is a winner and everyone else is broke…it all goes back in the box. Isn’t that what the year of Jubilee is? Think about how this would change our free market system, it would serve to limit greed. You can work hard, you can amass wealth, but only so far!

Singer songwriter Michael Card has a song Jesus is our Jubilee. The link is here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I15coFa1ug0

He has come to set the captives free, to give sight to the blind, to pay our debts…and more. We see him doing exactly that in Mark today.

Jesus heals a man right in the middle of a church service! He heals Peter’s mother and then it simply says that the brought all in the city who were sick and he healed them. You would think He would be exhausted, but he gets up and goes “throughout all Galilee” preaching and healing…it is a Jubilee.

It is short post today, in part because I just want to stay in this moment for a bit.