You shall season all your grain offerings with salt. You shall not let the salt of the covenant with your God be missing from your grain offering; with all your offerings you shall offer salt. Leviticus 2:13 – In this chapter the Lord outlined the ways to offer grain offerings to Him. These offerings weren’t given as a way to cover any sin within the giver’s life, but given simply as a means of thankfulness to the Lord for what He had done for the giver. While we get the procedure of the offering in this chapter, we also see there was a couple things to never be included in the grain offerings and one thing to always be included. Leaven and honey were never to be given as a food offering to the Lord to be burned on the altar. Scripturally leaven represents sin and honey was connected to sensual pleasure and even used in offerings to pagan gods. God forbid His offerings to be mixed with such things for He wanted His offerings to pure and lasting. Salt on the other hand was used to bring such things to food, it could purify something and it was a preservation agent used to keep something good for longer. God’s heart wanted their offerings to be mixed with things that were pure and lasting, not artificial and sinful. As we give to the Lord today, we can expect the same posture from the Lord around our offerings to Him. He isn’t looking for artificial worship. He isn’t looking for an offering that is woven with a scheme to get something out of Him. He’s looking for pure, undefiled worship that is enduring. What the Lord desires is an offering that is given that is free of sin’s influence and is seeking out to foster our pure relationship with Him. As Mark 9:49-50 speaks about then, is your life right now an offering that is “seasoned with salt?” I love you, but Jesus loves you more – Mac – Daily DEVO 3204
Question To Ponder: What might an offering we give today be and how might we add the leaven of sin into it?
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