Devotionals (Page 17)

Read: Numbers 1-2 Focus Verse: “So the Israelites did everything the LORD commanded Moses; that is the way they encamped under their standards, and that is the way they set out, each of them with their clan and family.” (2:34) Devotion: In these 2 chapters a census is taken. Boring, right? Well within all of this it informs us that they are to set up camp, move, and do…

Read: Leviticus 26-27 Focus Verse: “‘But if they will confess their sins and the sins of their ancestors—their unfaithfulness and their hostility toward me, which made me hostile toward them so that I sent them into the land of their enemies—then when their uncircumcised hearts are humbled and they pay for their sin, I will remember my covenant with Jacob and my covenant…

Read: Leviticus 24-25 Focus Verse: “‘Anyone who takes the life of a human being is to be put to death. Anyone who takes the life of someone’s animal must make restitution—life for life. Anyone who injures their neighbor is to be injured in the same manner: fracture for fracture, eye for eye, tooth for tooth. The one who has inflicted the injury must suffer the same…

Read: Leviticus 22-23 Focus Verse: “The priests are to preform my service in such a way that they do not become guilty and die for treating it with contempt. I am the LORD, who makes them holy.” (22:9) Devotion: Contempt is defined as ‘the feeling that a person or a thing is beneath consideration.’ So priests must guard themselves to not treat service to God as though…

Read: Leviticus 19-21 Focus Verse: “The LORD said to Moses, ‘Speak to the entire assembly of Israel and say to them: ‘Be holy because I, the LORD your God, am holy.’” Devotion: Be holy like God is holy, what does that mean? In this section on various laws, I find it beautiful that when it’s harvest time you aren’t to over harvest or take everything. The harvest that falls…

Read: Leviticus 16-18 Focus Verse: “You must not do as they do in Egypt, where you used to live, and you must not do as they do in the land of Canaan, where I am bringing you. Do not follow their practices.” (Leviticus 18:3).  Devotion: Don’t follow their practices, but why? Well what follows in Ch 18 are a list of sexual practices the Israelites are to avoid. Also,…

Read: Leviticus 14-15 Focus Verse: “If, however, they are poor and cannot afford these, they must take one male lamb as a guilt offering to be waved to make atonement for them, together with a tenth of an ephah of the finest flour mixed with olive oil for a grain offering, a log of oil, and two doves or two young pigeons, such as they can afford, one for a sin offering…

Read: Leviticus 14-15 Focus Verse: “If, however, they are poor and cannot afford these, they must take one male lamb as a guilt offering to be waved to make atonement for them, together with a tenth of an ephah of the finest flour mixed with olive oil for a grain offering, a log of oil, and two doves or two young pigeons, such as they can afford, one for a sin offering…