Today's Thought - Restoration

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Restoration

The Driver* had reached fifty years of age, the age of Jubilee. As members of the family, we all gathered to celebrate. We were about twenty people in all, with ages ranging over seven decades.

But in The Driver*, we all equally celebrated fifty years. Age or status had nothing to do with it, we were all as one.

The idea of Jubilee began about three and a half thousand years ago. It was a year-long celebration of freedom – freedom from debt in an economy that held financial management and resource management to a fifty-year maximum - freedom from exploitation by the wealthy over the poor. All family properties were restored to original title-holders.

Above all, it was freedom from guilt. All past wrongs were forgiven and all past hurts were reconciled. The status quo was restored.

Likewise, ‘in The Driver*’ we all celebrated Jubilee. The status quo was restored.

“You are all one person in Christ Jesus.”

Galatians 3:28

Christ has restored equality to us - what a Jubilee!

P.S. For the Jubilee, look up Leviticus 25:10-17

* The Driver is my son, the Train Driver, who often features in my Tigga-the-WomBrat stories for children published by Rubini Publications.