Daily Devotional from Numbers 3—Verses 11-12And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, "Behold, I have taken the Levites from among the people of Israel instead of every firstborn who opens the womb among the people of Israel. The Levites shall be mine.”God chose the tribe of the Levites, specifically to minister to Him and to care for and guard all of the components of the tabernacle. They were to prot...  Read More

Daily Devotional from Numbers 2--Verse 3Those to camp on the east side toward the sunrise shall be of the standard of the camp of Judah by their companies, the chief of the people of Judah being Nahshon the son of Amminadab…The more I read and learn about the Bible, the more I love the story of the Tabernacle. One of my favorite things about it is that the entrance must face the east; because back...  Read More

Daily Devotional from Numbers 1—Verse 2Take a census of all the congregation of the people of Israel, by clans, by fathers’ houses, according to the number of names, every male, head by head.Reading a list of names can be boring, but the fact that they are included in the Scriptures means they are important and there for a reason (2 Tim 3:16). Genealogy was important to the Jews to determine if on...  Read More

Daily Devotional from Leviticus 27—Verse 21But the field, when it is released in the jubilee, shall be a holy gift to the Lord, like a field that has been devoted. The priest shall be in possession of it.Have you ever hit the reset button on something that wasn’t functioning properly? When the Israelites reached the Promised Land, God distributed land to the tribes. Over the years, as people neede...  Read More

Daily Devotional from Leviticus 26—Verses 3-4If you walk in my statutes and observe my commandments and do them, then I will give you your rains in their season, and the land shall yield its increase, and the trees of the field shall yield their fruit.Verses 1-13 list the blessings of obeying God, while 14-39 pronounce curses for disobedience. We’re in the middle of the five books of the LAW and t...  Read More

Daily Devotional from Leviticus 25—Verse 22When you plant your fields in the eighth year, you will still be eating from the large crop of the sixth year. In fact, you will still be eating from that large crop when the new crop is harvested in the ninth year.Isn’t it amazing how the LORD provided for the Israelites? In this chapter, we see again the concept of laying down the work and trusting God ...  Read More

Daily Devotional from Leviticus 24--Verse 12And they put him in custody, till the will of the Lord should be clear to them.When the man blasphemed the Lord, the Israelites weren’t sure of how to punish him. And so, they waited upon the Lord for wisdom.God gives wisdom to those who ask for it. When we face difficult decisions, do we rely on our own wisdom, or do we slow down and wait for God’s? It’...  Read More

Daily Devotional from Leviticus 23--Verse 2These are the appointed feasts of the Lord that you shall proclaim as holy convocations.What would it look like if we stopped and celebrated more? As Americans, we just keep the pedal to the metal and don’t stop nearly enough.But I like how God instructed Israel to do it. If you were to add up all the holidays listed in chapter 23, you would have 18 days....  Read More

Daily Devotional from Leviticus 22--Verse 32b-33I am the LORD who sanctifies you, who brought you out of the land of Egypt to be your God: I am the LORD.Throughout Leviticus 21-22 we see requirements physically and relationally for the priests, and we see physical requirements for the sacrifices. Throughout this reading we also see the word “blemish” repeated over and over. It was required that th...  Read More

Daily Devotional from Leviticus 21—Verse 23But he shall not go through the veil or approach the altar, because he has a blemish, that he may not profane my sanctuaries, for I am the Lord who sanctifies them.Reading through this long list, you realize just how strict the law was for the Israelites. And rightfully so, the standard for holiness is high, and it has to be, because God can’t lower his s...  Read More

Daily Devotional from Leviticus 20—Verse 23 & 26You must not follow the statutes of the nations I am driving out before you, for they did all these things, and I abhorred them… You are to be holy to me because I, the LORD, am holy, and I have set you apart from the nations to be mine.The nations that filled the ancient land of Canaan participated in worship practices that were chilling. To appease...  Read More

Daily Devotional from Leviticus 19--Verse 16You shall not go around as a slanderer among your people, and you shall not stand up against the life of your neighbor: I am the Lord.Slander is a plague amongst non-believers and believers alike; it seems Satan has a foothold in the church. We damage people’s reputations and sometimes we hardly know the person. Gossip and slander go hand in hand. I thin...  Read More