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Daily Devotionals
Day by Day Devotional - Year 1 of 5
Leviticus 22:17-33
From 21:1 to 22:16, God makes provision for the preservation of a priesthood without blemish, whilst in vv. 17-33 He is concerned with the quality of offerings. How sad it is that He should be obliged to insist: "You shall not offer Me an animal that is sick or which has a blemish". Notwithstanding these instructions that should not have been necessary, the prophet Malachi tells us that the people did bring such offerings. To act like this was a two-fold sin: first because it amounted to despising the LORD. That which nobody would have dared to offer to the governor (Malachi 1:8), which had no market value, was found good enough for God. Secondly because all these sacrifices, speaking of Christ, the perfect Victim, must be without blemish. And we, dear Christian friends, what do we set aside for the Lord of our time, of our energy, of our intelligence, of our money? The best, or simply what is left over, what we have no other use for?
In contrast to sacrifices for sin, which were necessary and obligatory, we are concerned here with sacrifices of thanksgiving, freewill offerings, those that are optional. Neither does God insist on anything from us; nothing is forced. But the more the love of Jesus has taken hold of our hearts, the more careful we shall be as to what we offer to Him in return.
