I am utterly amazed as I am reading through the first books of the Old Testament this time. For some reason, and this is true for all of us at points in our lives, the scriptures are given meaning like they never had before. Leviticus is a great example of this. As I began this morning the preface of the book tells me that the book’s title is all about directions for the Levi’s as they were anointed to be the priests handling everything regarding worship and the care of the temple and its contents. More than this, as the chapters begin, they tell us why we are not to come to God and worship at points in the day, month, etc. We are unclean at these points. 

What amazed me was when all of this was compared to Adam and Eve prior to their fall (eating the forbidden fruit), there was no time when they were not to worship God and commune with Him. After their sin, not only were they abandoned from the purity of the Garden of Eden, but they could no longer worship God or come to Him anytime they desired. Our everyday life has the influence of sin in it and God wanted them purified before anyone came to Him. They had to offer sacrifices for the purpose of becoming “pure in the sight of God”. 

Well, look what Jesus did for us today! No matter how scarred we are from our sin/s, God wants us to come to Him for He sees us through the sacrifice of Jesus on the Cross. I know this isn’t new, but reading this in Leviticus this morning only made it all very bold in my mind. How fortunate we are to live in today where we have Jesus!