Exodus 23:10–13
The Bible4Jesus.com Podcast
About this episode
We live in an age that is profoundly confused about the basics. We are confused about work, thinking it a curse. We are confused about rest, thinking it mere idleness. We are confused about wealth, thinking it a sin. And we are confused about poverty, thinking it a virtue. Our culture's solutions to these things are always coercive and statist. The secularist sees a problem and his first instinct is to form a committee, pass a law, and create a federal program. This is because the secularist has no God, and so the state must become his god, his provider, his savior. But the laws God gave to Israel in the wilderness were of a completely different character. They were not the top-down, bureaucratic mandates of a nanny state. They were the rhythms of a free and grateful people.