- 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
- Leviticus 2 Daily DEVO – And you shall bring the grain offering that is made of these things to the Lord, and when it is presented to the priest, he shall bring it to the altar. Leviticus 2:8 – When it says “these things” it is referring to three different ways that they could make these offerings. An oven, a griddle, a pan. All three were very common place ways to cook for the people and things they’d be used to already. This shows that God knew His people and also wanted to make the process of obeying His commands something doable for them. God wanted them to follow Him so He met them where they were at. God has met you where you’re at as well and made it doable for you to follow Him as well. In fact He met us so much where we’re at that He even became one of us to show us how to follow Him. Know that God’s ways are doable for you and He purposely made them that way. Why? Because He knows when you follow His ways you get to know Him better. I love you, but Jesus loves you more – Mac – Daily DEVO 884
- When anyone brings a grain offering as an offering to the Lord, his offering shall be of fine flour. He shall pour oil on it and put frankincense on it…Leviticus 2:1 – The bringer of the offering did this showing he got to be a part of the sacrificial process. No, his hands nor his efforts made him holy, but God invited his hands to be a part of what God was doing in his life. In our story we have to acknowledge our hands nor our efforts make us holy before God. That happens because of the blood of Jesus. God though allows us a part in all this. He invites us to lay at His feet our agenda and our wants. He gives us the freedom to choose how deeply we want to pursue this life with Him. While the salvation is solely Jesus’ doing, the pursuit of intimacy with God we get a part in. Know today there are steps toward a closeness with God you can make. Your choices today on how you live, how you speak, and how you pursue God all play a part in this. God is inviting you to be a part of this relationship He has with you, how deeply will you pursue the part you play in it? I love you, but Jesus loves you more – Mac – Daily DEVO 1925
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