Read the Bible in a Year

 READ THE BIBLE IN A YEAR

LEVITICUS MOMENT – God gave Moses instructions that were to be carried out once the Children of Israel would make it to their promised land of milk and honey. If they found a house that had mold in it, the house had to be inspected by the priest and certain things had to be done to make the house ceremonially clean. God was preparing the Children of Israel to walk in total obedience in the wilderness, so that once they inherited the land that He had promised their forefathers, they would walk faithfully in accordance to His will. God prepares us for the things that He has for us long before they are actually given to us. We may think that God is taking His time, but He is pruning and training us long before we receive that blessing that He has in store. The Israelites had to learn to obey with little before they were blessed with much, or it would have gone to their heads in arrogance that God had blessed them. There’s a huge lesson to understand here. When we are waiting for the promises of God to be fulfilled in our lives, we must be careful to obey Him in the smaller matters, regardless of how long it takes, and in so doing, we are showing God that we will be faithful in the larger things that He has for us. Something to ponder…

QUESTION OF THE DAY – As part of the cleansing process after having been ceremonially unclean, the man had to wash his clothes, shave off all his hair and bathe in water. After which, he would be ceremonially clean. Today, God does not have us to operate in the same manner, but when we accept Jesus into our hearts, we shave off the old life, and walk into the new. We get baptized in water and allow the Holy Spirit to baptize us with fire. We take off the sin-stained garments, and put on robes of righteousness. So, have you been ceremonially cleaned? Are you wearing the robes of righteousness? Have you allowed the Holy Spirit to dwell on the inside of you? Something to ponder…

LEVITICUS MOMENT – A man or woman who had any type of discharge, including the woman’s monthly, was considered as being unclean. This important fact will be revisited much later once we get to the New Testament. For now, we know that anything that they touched, sat on, or even someone who touched them, was unclean until evening and sacrifices had to be made in accordance to God’s commands. Today, there are many people who are unclean in God’s eyes. It is not in the same manner as discussed in this text, but in the sense of aligning oneself with things that are unholy before God. Any type of sin that we allow to dwell in our life unconfessed is like the discharge that makes us unclean in God’s eyes. It totally infects and affects everything that it touches. If you keep company with those who live a lifestyle of sin, then it can rub off on you and make you unclean before the Lord. Sin infects our spiritual walk with God and causes compromise on every level if we allow it. But Jesus’ blood covers those who turn away from sin and purifies us before our Holy God.  Something to ponder…