Read: Lev. 17-19
If you take two things away from today’s reading, let it be this: God is serious about death and life and He doesn’t like mixture. Blood is a substance that carries life so if we eat the blood of an animal, we are allowing its life to mix with our life. If we listen to another’s beliefs about God that are contrary to the truth in God’s Word and allow it to soak in, we are drinking that person’s blood and his life is being poured into us. That is why God had strict laws about what you eat. He also had strict laws about how a sacrifice was to be administered. He didn’t want the non-priest to mess with the blood or he would defile himself. He wanted the trained priests to sacrifice the animals and deal with the blood. God did not want to mix our blood with animal’s blood.
The same goes with someone who is kin to you. God did not want to mix bloods. Sexual relations with people in your bloodline would eventually bring about a life in which the blood was mixed. We now know that that can cause serious birth defects. That brings to my memory the reason God destroyed the earth with the flood. The bloodline of human beings was being mixed with demons (Genesis 6). God found Noah who had a righteous bloodline so he preserved him and started over.
This spreading of life goes to our mouths and what we say. The power of life and death is in our tongue.
Mixture is the opposite of holiness. Holiness is pure but mixture has a hint of the pure and an alloy. Satan brings mixture. He comes in like an angel of light but leaves death and destruction behind. God comes in as The Angel of Light and leaves growth and healing and life behind. We can be a messenger of either one we choose. Let’s choose life!
Lord, may we be aware of mixture that tries to creep into our lives. Help us to crave the pure and holy.
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