"Then I will remember my covenant with Jacob and my covenant with Isaac and my covenant with Abraham and I will remember the land. For the land must be abandoned to enjoy years of Sabbath rest as it lies deserted. At last the people will pay for their sins, for they have continually rejected my regulations and despised my decrees. But despite all this, I will not utterly reject or depose them while they are in exile in the land of their enemies. I will not cancel my covenant with them by wiping them out, for I am The Lord their God. For their sakes, I will remember my ancient covenant with their ancestors,whom I brought out of the land of Egypt in the sight if all the nations, that I might be their God. I am the Lord."
Levticus 26:42-45
The land must be abandoned to enjoy years of sabbath rest while it lies deserted. How many times have moments of desperation, despondence and isolation brings us to our very knees and back to the arms of God, to his very heart for us. Indeed, it is in our emptiness that we feel God most intimately, and find God the closest.
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