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

Daily Devotional from Leviticus 18--Verse 30So keep my charge never to practice any of these abominable customs that were practiced before you, and never to make yourselves unclean by them: I am the Lord your God.There’s no way around it, so I’m just going to dive right in: this chapter is all about sex. Specifically, what kinds of sex are not okay with God. He created us – that means he created u...  Read More

Daily Devotional from Leviticus 17--Verse 11For the life of the flesh is in the blood, and I have given it for you on the altar to make atonement for your souls, for it is the blood that makes atonement by the life.Atonement is one of those “church-y” words that gets said a lot. We know the context of it and that it is related to the cross and that it does something with sin.In this verse, the Heb...  Read More

Daily Devotional from Leviticus 16--Verses 21-22And Aaron shall lay both his hands on the head of the live goat, and confess over it all the iniquities of the people of Israel, and all their transgressions, all their sins. And he shall put them on the head of the goat and send it away into the wilderness by the hand of a man who is in readiness. The goat shall bear all their iniquities on itself t...  Read More

Daily Devotional from Leviticus 15--Verse 31Thus you shall keep the people of Israel separate from their uncleanness, lest they die in their uncleanness by defiling my tabernacle that is in their midst.In our day and age, we often think in terms of personal problems. My problems only affect me. However, you can see that the laws in Leviticus have a strong communal aspect to it. My personal problem...  Read More

Daily Devotional from Leviticus 14 (selections)—…and the priest shall go out of the camp… the priest shall put [the blood] on the lobe of the right ear of him who is to be cleansed and on the thumb of his right hand and on the big toe of his right foot …the priest shall put [the oil] on the lobe…the thumb…the big toe…on top of the blood...The priest’s treatment of leprosy begins not by the leper c...  Read More

Daily Devotional from Leviticus 13--Verses 45-46The leprous person who has the disease shall wear torn clothes and let the hair of his head hang loose, and he shall cover his upper lip and cry out, ‘Unclean, unclean.’ He shall remain unclean as long as he has the disease. He is unclean. He shall live alone. His dwelling shall be outside the camp.The chapter on Identifying leprosy is the longest ch...  Read More

Daily Devotional from Leviticus 12--Verse 6And when the days of her purifying are completed, whether for a son or for a daughter, she shall bring to the priest at the entrance of the tent of meeting a lamb a year old for a burnt offering, and a pigeon or a turtledove for a sin offering…While this chapter is hard for me to understand, I recognize that Holiness was extremely important to the Jewish ...  Read More

Daily Devotional from Leviticus 11--Verse 44I am the LORD your God. Consecrate yourselves therefore, and be holy, for I am holy.This verse says that the Lord wants us to consecrate ourselves. Do you know what that means? It means to declare yourself to be sacred. Another word for sacred is dedicated. Dedicated for a special use. My wedding ring is dedicated. My birth certificate is dedicated. My J...  Read More

Daily Devotional from Leviticus 10--Verse 2And fire came out from before the Lord and consumed them, and they died before the Lord.This is a tragic account from Israel’s history. Violation of our holy God’s clear commands about how to enter into His presence led to the judgment (death) of two of Aaron’s sons.What should we learn from this account?Today, God has given us very clear directions throu...  Read More

Daily Devotional from Leviticus 9—Verse 23And Moses and Aaron went into the tent of meeting, and when they came out they blessed the people, and the glory of the LORD appeared to all the people.In Leviticus 9-10, we see how the sacrifices were carried out. There were very specific commands for the sin, burnt, and peace offerings. When Aaron had carried out these commands, God appeared before all o...  Read More