Good morning! It's a new beautiful day!
Leviticus chapter one.
Leviticus is it all about offerings to the Lord. Our Lives should be a daily offering to the Lord. Each new day should start with “God, it's a new day and I offer my life to you. May I be pleasing in your sight. Use my life to impact another life. Use my life to encourage someone. Use my life to accomplish whatever you want to accomplish today.”
This just reminded me if a verse in Luke 9:23 where Jesus said: ‘If anyone desires to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow Me.’”
As I read chapter 1, I was reminded today of Romans 12:1-2. “I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship. Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.” I was also thinking about 1 Samuel 15:22 as I have shared before about the importance of obedience.
I hope you enjoy the ApologetiX parodies for Leviticus that I’m posting in the reply section since we are starting this book today.
Here’s the link for Leviticus Can’t Be Done.
https://youtu.be/TuO0m7jUKrs
Here’s the link for Day Kippur.
https://youtu.be/ylVfCbTVU1Y
Thanks, Jim, I’ve been missing the music!
It’s easy to get bogged down when reading Leviticus and think what do these bizarre rituals of a different age have to do with me? Remember that although God had brought Israel out of Egypt, he still had to take Egypt out of them. He was teaching them a whole new way of life, cleansing them from the many pagan practices they learned in Egypt, and restoring true worship of Him. They needed to learn about faith in Him, the cost of sin, and commitment to His laws. Each law paints a graphic picture of the seriousness of sin and of God’s great mercy in forgiving sinners. The detailed regulations give us important insight into God’s nature and character, His holiness and His will for His people. This instruction takes two years camped at the foot of Mt Sinai. While we are not under the authority of the Old Covenant but rather the New Covenant, we can learn a lot about God by reading and absorbing what He had to say through Moses in this book about worship and holy living for the children of Israel.
“You are to offer a male without defect. You must present it at the entrance to the tent of meeting so that it will be acceptable to the Lord. 4 You are to lay your hand on the head of the burnt offering, and it will be accepted on your behalf to make atonement for you.
I love have even before Jesus came to save us from our sins, God provided opportunities of atonement for our sins. We come to him, with many defects and ask for his grace and mercy and forgiveness. Time and time again we sin. We make the same mistakes and then some new mistakes. God is always there, ready to welcome us back into His loving arms. It is my prayer, that after I come to God for forgiveness, I don’t waste the atonement He grants me. It is my prayer I use it to make a better life, living for Him with every action.