Today we hear about the Sabbath year and the year of Jubilee. Before the Year of Jubilee, property could be redeemed. On the Jubilee year property was returned to the original owners and poor people who had became enslaved were set free. I suspect these laws were never done in all of Israel's history. If they were, perhaps only once— seventy years after Israel entered the land of Canaan.
Today we read the most famous psalm of all. Gale, my wife, has often said: Psalm 23 is so often quoted at funerals, but this is a psalm about living, not dying!
Today we hear two longer parables, both very insightful: The parable of the shrewd manager and the one about the rich man and Lazarus. Both of them show this lesson: “Use your worldly resources to benefit others and make friends. Then, when your earthly possessions are gone, they (those friends) will welcome you to an eternal home.”
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