DAY EIGHT (Leviticus 1 – 14:32)
And so, after a week of pretty consistent reading, we hit what I have always called “the speed bump” of the Bible. Leviticus is an extremely important book, just because of the detail it goes into to make sure that the people of God remained clean and able to be near God. There are, of course, lots of excruciating laws and regulations and procedures and that can get hard to plow through, but every time I get overwhelmed reading Leviticus, I try to remember two things: I’m reading it, but they had to live it, and Jesus took every bit of the need for these laws on Himself when He died in our place. The cross was a big deal, and I’m so thankful for it. How I live now doesn’t earn me anything, but it sure does reveal whether or not I understand the incredible price that was paid and sacrifice that was made.
May not be many observations in this book, but here are a few:
After all the explanations about how the sacrifices should be made, what the priests should wear and when they should perform the tasks, they finally offered them to the Lord. The result? His glory filling the place and the people with their faces on the ground. Yes, Lord! (Leviticus 9:24)
Leviticus 10:6 seems harsh, and yet I cannot try to fit a righteous, holy, “altogether greater than me” God into the small box of my perception of goodness and fairness.
Jesus was born into poverty. (Leviticus 12:8; cf. Luke 2:24)
