What does God reveal about himself in today’s passage?  More of His faithfulness, more of His goodness, and further: the fact that God provides abundantly for those who serve Him.  The priests were allowed to eat a significant proportion of the animal sacrifices.  In fact one commentator suggests that the priests could not have lived on mere sporadic occasional offerings of the Israelites, and were not intended to do so.  The offerings needed to be regular.  It is an interesting interpretation and application to consider that this passage teaches us something about how we should financially support those who serve us in ministry.  This is reinforced in the New Testament in 1 Corinthians 9: 13-14 where Paul tells us: “Do you not know that those who are employed in the temple service get their food from the temple, and those who serve at the altar share in the sacrificial offerings? In the same way, the Lord commanded that those who proclaim the gospel should get their living by the gospel”.  In Leviticus we will read passages about tithes, and more about what the Israelites needed to offer up to the Lord, and we may be challenged in terms of our own discipline of giving, or consider how sacrificial our giving is.  However, more than a lesson in discipline and giving we can see God’s instructions on giving as an opportunity to be a stronger community, to be a part of the resourcing of God’s work in this community, through what He does through His church.  Praise God!