On the eighth day Moses called Aaron and his sons and the elders of Israel, 2 and he said to Aaron, “Take for yourself a bull calf for a sin offering and a ram for a burnt offering, both without blemish, and offer them before the Lord. Leviticus 9:1-2 – The process for Aaron and his sons to be ready in God’s eyes to begin working as the priests for the people of Israel was a long process. We have Aaron and his sons going through a very detailed order of getting dressed and a list of sacrifices that had to be made in certain ways. We also see that these men who were being prepared for the priesthood had to stay an entire week in the area of the Tent of Meeting eating the holy foods of the sacrifices. If anyone was to be able to appear before the Lord as holy, we’d think it was these guys! Yet what do we see on day eight was supposed to be done, the day the consecration process was to end? Aaron was to take a bull and sacrifice it to cover all the sins that he had done even during the week of the consecration process. Even in the holy attire, even after eating all the holy foods, and even after staying in the holy entrance to the Tent of Meeting, Aaron still had more sin to cover. This reveals to us how desperately we needed a better sacrifice than that of bulls and lambs. We don’t need just a covering of sins to get us through until we sin again, then we get those covered with another sacrifice. We need a perfect sacrifice to cover all our sins for all time. Thankfully we have the in Jesus. We are not in a place of needing a new sacrifice today to cover the sins of yesterday. Jesus covered all sin for eternity. That’s just how perfect His sacrifice was. Move freely then today into the holy presence of the Lord knowing that because of Jesus you have been made clean. I love you, but Jesus loves you more – Mac – Daily DEVO 3211
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