While Moses was on Mount Sinai, the LORD said to him, 2 “Give the following instructions to the people of Israel. (Leviticus 25:1-2)I am in the midst of reading the book of Leviticus right now and I am tired of it. As someone said the other day about something else, if God put it in there, he wants us to know it. And that is true.
However, it is not necessarily all that much fun.
The mandates from God in Leviticus are excruciatingly detailed. Every single thing on every single day at every single hour are lined out for the Israelites to do. Every little aspect of their lives is regulated to the nth degree.
All of this makes me grateful for the new law, the law of love. Paul’s comment in Galatians 5, the only thing that counts is faith expressing itself through love. That is a long ways from the book of Leviticus. And I surely am glad.
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