Today’s sacrificial ‘guilt offering’ relates to sins regarding ‘any of the holy things of the Lord’ (v.15) and sins relating to the ‘Lord’s commandments’ (v.17).  A skim of Exodus from chapter 35 onwards paints God as quite the interior designer in his instructions regarding the tabernacle and the tent of meeting.  God took the contributions of his people (Exodus 35: 4-10) to create the place of worship where His people would come with these sacrifices to seek forgiveness and reconciliation.  The tabernacle and all that was within it was precious to God, perhaps partly because of the labour and gifts of His people that went into it.  What could the ‘holy things of the Lord’ be in our lives?  How can we use all that the Lord has provided in service to Him, by viewing them ‘the holy things of the Lord’? 

The second half of this passage speaks of sin relating to the ‘Lord’s commandments’.  If you are able take some time just now to read Exodus 20 (the Ten Commandments) and reflect and how they make you feel.  The law, given through Moses, is given to make us feel that way; to expose the things in our life that separate us from a holy God.  In the absence of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, the Israelites had some criteria to meet in their sacrifices in order to let go of the guilt attached to any of the sins we have discussed.  The disciples, realising their hopeless position in regard to the law said to the Lord: “then who can be saved?” (Mark 10: 26), to which the gracious response came: “With man it is impossible, but not with God.  For all things are possible with God.” (Mark 10: 27).  Praise God again today that He has made all things possible, especially the forgiveness of sins, through the precious blood of His son Jesus Christ.