I’m So Confused

Today’s Passage – Leviticus 5 – 7 (Click on the references to listen to the audio – Click hereto view the passage from Blue Letter Bible)

(Second Milers also read – John 1 – 2; Proverbs 4; Psalms 21 – 25)

Scripture Memorization for February – Missions

Listen to this morning’s Scripture Song – Deuteronomy 32:4

Read the “0204 Evening and Morning“ devotion for today, by the late Charles Haddon Spurgeon.

Read previous posts from today’s passage – “Ignorant But Not Innocent” and “Do You Want to Shine?“

“This is the law of the burnt offering, of the meat offering, and of the sin offering, and of the trespass offering, and of the consecrations, and of the sacrifice of the peace offerings;” (Leviticus 7:37)

I didn’t tell the truth.  What animal do I need?  Where do I put the blood?  I stole money.  Do I need to burn the fat on the rump? What meat do we eat and what meat do we burn?  I’m so confused!!!

The children of Israel not only had to learn the law, they had to have some understanding of the sacrifice.  If they didn’t own the right animal for that sin, they had to purchase or trade for it.  A lot of details were given on how to handle the animal and the blood, for each sin committed.

How simple God has made salvation for us.  Believe.  Jesus is our perfect sacrifice to atone our sin.  The unblemished Lamb who shed His blood for all our sin.  But what also gets me confused, most people won’t accept His blood sacrifice.  It’s so simple for us.  No fuss, no muss, so easy.

This reminds me of Naaman the leper.

“So Naaman came with his horses and with his chariot, and stood at the door of the house of Elisha. And Elisha sent a messenger unto him, saying, Go and wash in Jordan seven times, and thy flesh shall come again to thee, and thou shalt be clean. But Naaman was wroth, and went away, and said, Behold, I thought, He will surely come out to me, and stand, and call on the name of the LORD his God, and strike his hand over the place, and recover the leper. Are not Abana and Pharpar, rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel? may I not wash in them, and be clean? So he turned and went away in a rage. And his servants came near, and spake unto him, and said, My father, if the prophet had bid thee do some great thing, wouldest thou not have done it? how much rather then, when he saith to thee, Wash, and be clean? Then went he down, and dipped himself seven times in Jordan, according to the saying of the man of God: and his flesh came again like unto the flesh of a little child, and he was clean.” (2 Kings 5:9-14)

Why do we want thing complicated?  God made salvation hard on Jesus but simple for us, but like Naaman we just have a hard time believing it.

Let’s take time today and every day to share the simple road to salvation.

Thank You

1 John 5:13