I am going to be teaching on Jubilee this week at Bible Study. I find this to be a very interesting topic. I think it is interesting that as far as we know the Jews never practiced it. It doesn’t surprise me that they didn’t; on some level it is a very hard thing to do, something that most people would find very hard. Especially those entrenched in positions of power or influence. It seems to me that the underlying idea of Jubilee is that everything belongs to God and we need to remember that. More than remember that, we need to live that. The living it part is where we usually trip up, get it wrong. Jubilee is a hard idea; I think what makes it hardest is that we live in a society that marks value and worth by level of material posessions, even if we say we don’t work that way. It’s hard for me to let go of things, even though I’m not always attached to them, because they are mine. And why should I let you have what is mine? Who cares if God thinks it belongs to Him? I know it belongs to me.
There are other ideas about Jubilee that I am probably going to talk about this week. I think we need to realize and accept, however, that we live in a culture diametrically opposed to Jubilee.
