16th Sept (Wednesday) Leviticus 6: 24-30

16th September 2015

Well done, you are half way through the week, still accessing these reflections, and nearing the end of instructions regarding different kinds of sacrifices.  You might well read today’s passage and think ‘thank goodness for that!’.  I trust that you are finding the goodness and faithfulness of God in these chapters, and I hope that you see how clearly they point to Jesus Christ on the cross.  Today’s passage is no exception.  The crucial point we can take from today’s passage is the blood of the sin offering was not taken lightly.  It was significant to God where the blood even accidentally dropped, and what it dropped on.  Even in Levitical times the blood was precious.  I wonder, do we call upon the blood of Jesus so often that we take less time to appreciate how precious the blood of Jesus is.  It is of course difficult for us to fathom the reality of what it meant for Jesus to go to the Cross, and as His blood essentially drops on each one of us, how precious we are to Him.  Blood reminds us how costly the grace we seek and receive daily was to our heavenly father, when He produced the necessary sin offering for our atonement.   As you bring your prayer requests for grace before God today, in all confidence that He will forgive you, take a moment to try to comprehend, and give thanks for the cost Jesus was willing to pay to make a way for us to the Father.