Leviticus 4 – Pastor Mac Daily DEVO

But the skin of the bull and all its flesh, with its head, its legs, its entrails, and its dung— ¹² all the rest of the bull—he shall carry outside the camp to a clean place, to the ash heap, and shall burn it up on a fire of wood. On the ash heap it shall be burned up. Leviticus 4:11-12 – In chapter 4 we are seeing how the Lord was directing His people to handle the “unintentional” sins that were discovered among them. The idea was that the individual or congregation was seeking to live a holy lifestyle, yet in the process of such they discovered there was a sin they were committing they didn’t know about. In the first block of verses we see what a priest was supposed to do when he discovered he was sinning like this. He was to take a grown bull and completely burn it up. And while parts of it would be burned on the altar at the tent of meeting, the majority of it would be carried out to a place of refuse outside the camp and burned up there. All the valuable leather that could have been made from the animal skin and all the meat that could had been eaten, just burned up in an ash heap far outside the camp. The image God was wanting them to see was the high cost of their sin and the pointlessness of it. Because of their sin they were “wasting” a full bull like this that could have been used for so many other purposes. While it’s a crazy way to think, such is what we are doing with Jesus’ sacrifice as we continue to sin…we waste it. Jesus was and is the perfect sacrifice for our sin, and while we’d never consider what Jesus did for us a waste, when we continue to allow sin in our life we are handling His sacrifice like this bull. We are taking something extremely valuable, taking it to a place of refuse, and destroying it. Jesus’ sacrifice is far too valuable to be treated like something wasteful. I love you, but Jesus loves you more – Mac – Daily DEVO 3206

Question To Ponder: How can we treat Jesus’ sacrifice with the value it deserves? 

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