Please read Leviticus 14.
www.blueletterbible.org/nasb/lev/14/1/s_104001
Notice the repeated
phrase: the one to be cleansed.
Meditate on verses 1-3a.
Then the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
“This shall be the law of the leper in the day of his cleansing.
Now he shall be brought to the
priest,
and the priest shall go out to the outside of the camp.”
The LORD cares about lepers. He dedicated 116 verses to
lepers and their dreaded disease. While leprosy is a condition caused by
bacteria and is not sin, its parallels to sin’s consequences and what God
requires in order to be cleansed are not coincidental.
A leper was cleansed outside the camp through great
sacrifice involving birds, blood, living water, oil, lambs without defect,
clothes washed ... And just like God cares about the individual cleansing of
one leper, He cares about the individual cleansing of you from sin, going to
great sacrifice to ensure you are “the one to be cleansed” (vs. 4, 7-8, 11, 14,
17-19, 25, 28-29, 31).
But God demonstrates His own love toward us,
in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
Therefore Jesus also, that He might sanctify the people
through His own blood, suffered
outside the gate.
So, let us go out to Him outside
the camp.
—Romans 5:8; Hebrews
13:12-13a
Use Leviticus 14:24-25 as a prayer of thanksgiving to your
LORD and as a prayer of intercession over those for whom you stand guard as a
faithful, prayerful watchman (Isaiah 62:6-7).
“Jesus, You are the Lamb of my guilt offering.
You were slaughtered, and Your blood put on me,
so I can be cleansed. Thank You!
Let _____________ accept You as their guilt offering
to be cleansed of their sins.
In Your name, Jesus~”
The WATCHMAN on the
WALL 2 ~ Dr. Ron and Marsha Harvell
No comments:
Post a Comment