Prayer: Father, help me to understand the need to be clean before You. Amen.
Reading: Leviticus 15 key: vs. 31
31 “So you are to keep Bnei-Yisrael separate from their uncleanness, so they will not die in their uncleanness by defiling My Tabernacle that is in their midst.”
Attention: There is always a process to purification. In our culture, most of us have access to showers and bathtubs. Many of us even bath our pets. My wife demonstrated to me recently, how much our Golden Labrador Abigail, loves a bath. After all, they are water dogs. Sure dogs lick and clean themselves, but if they are indoor pets, they need a good cleaning regularly.
Adonai prescribed the process for obtaining purification. It is an important point to make. The action of purification was handed down from Adonai to Moses. It included the sacrificial process which was to be made by a priest for the one in need of purification. It wasn’t something they could do on their own or obtain on their own.
The process was called “atonement.” The Hebrew children (Bnei-Yisrael) were atoned by the blood sacrifice of animals. We are atoned by the blood of Yeshua. Neither us nor the Bnei-Yisrael were able to atone for their uncleanness or sin by themselves. Atonement came from outside.
In the next chapter of Leviticus, we are introduced to Yom Kippur, considered the most important of Judaism’s High Holy days.
Understand that atonement was made for us on Calvary. Yeshua provided the atonement which is available to everyone. Not everyone will choose to receive His atonement. For those of us who claim Yeshua’s atoning blood, we are considered cleansed of sin. Has our sinful nature been fully eradicated? I believe this too is a lifelong process which is fully realized when we enter His presence in eternal life.
May we all seek daily to come into His presence purified, cleansed, and forgiven of sin.
Action: I choose to seek a lifestyle of purity with Christ, in Christ and through Him.
Yield: I give my thought life, my heart, mind and soul to the Holy Spirit.
Engage: I choose to life wholly and holy unto Adonai.
Relationship: I choose to be united with Yeshua every day, all through the day.
Prayer: Father, as we seek You through the scriptures daily, may our lives be transformed to Your likeness and image. Amen.
Memory Verse: Philippians 2:15-16
15 so that you might be blameless and innocent, children of God in the midst of a crooked and twisted generation. Among them you shine as lights in the world, 16 holding fast to the word of life, so that I may boast in the day of Messiah that I did not run or labor in vain.
Music Video: Vineyard Anaheim ft. Jeremy Riddle—Purify My Heart https://youtu.be/G0chw-XNP9M
Remember, “Abide in Yeshua, today!”