If anyone who is unclean eats any meat of the fellowship offering . . . if anyone touches something unclean and then eats any meat of the fellowship offering . . . that person must be cut off from his people. (Leviticus 7:20,21)Whenever I read this passage, I have to admit, the thought comes to me: God is so strict. I mean, being excommunicated for what basically amounts to not washing your hands?
But maybe the attitude problem isn't God's. Maybe? What am I talking about? Maybe the problem is mine. Could it be that I don't take seriously enough God's holiness and his desire for me to reflect that holiness?
Our fathers disciplined us for a little while as they thought best, but God disciplines us for our good, that we may share in his holiness (Hebrews 12:10).
Is there anything in your life that God calls sin, but you've dismissed as insignificant?
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