Leviticus 25:1-7: in context

God gives Israel a striking command about the land. For six years you shall sow your fields and prune your vineyards and gather the harvest; but in the seventh year the land is to have a Sabbath of solemn rest, a Sabbath to the LORD. You shall not sow or prune or reap what grows of itself. The land itself is to rest one year in seven. And whatever the land produces on its own during that year is to be food for all, owner and servant and stranger and even the animals alike.

This command required something that does not come naturally to us: to stop producing, and to trust God to provide. For a whole year, every seventh year, Israel was to cease sowing and reaping, to let the land lie fallow and rest. And this meant trusting that God would provide during the year they did not work the land, that they would not starve for ceasing to produce. It was a discipline of rest built into the very economy, and it rested on trust, the trust that their provision came finally from God, not from their own ceaseless labor. There is a wisdom here that our productivity-driven lives badly need. We are prone to work without ceasing, to believe that our security depends on our own constant producing, that if we stop, even to rest, everything will fall apart. To rest, truly, requires trust, the trust that God, and not our nonstop effort, is the one who provides and sustains. The land Sabbath forced Israel to confront this: to stop working the land and to trust God to feed them, to rest from producing and believe that their provision did not depend solely on their own unending labor. And God promised to provide for those who kept it, to bless the sixth year's harvest enough to carry them through. The principle reaches into our own lives. To be able to rest, to cease our striving, to stop producing for a time, requires and expresses a trust that our security rests in God and not merely in our own ceaseless effort. The one who cannot rest, who must always be producing, who dares not stop for fear it will all collapse, is trusting in his own labor rather than in God. The land Sabbath taught Israel to rest and trust; and the same trust is what makes it possible for us to cease our striving, believing that God, not our nonstop work, is the one who provides.

Am I able to rest, to cease my striving and stop producing for a time, or am I driven to work without ceasing, believing my security depends on my own constant effort, and can I learn from the land Sabbath the trust that makes rest possible, that God, and not my nonstop labor, is the one who provides for me?