Read: Leviticus 9:7-10:20; Mark 4:26-5:20: Psalm 37:30-40; Proverbs 10:6-7
The priests began their ministry sacrificing the sin offering. God showed up with fire that consumed the gift. The people shouted for joy and fell on their face in awe and reverence. I don’t know if Aaron’s two sons Nadab and Abihu, wanted their own attention or what but they did something so wrong it caused God have to eliminate them. They offered strange fire on the altar of incense. The altar of incense was one of the most holy acts of the priest. It was to be the incense that was specially made by the apothecaries and was to be offered by only one priest, not two. They rebelliously did it their way and not God’s so God had to discipline them. It cost them their lives. With greater responsibility comes greater consequences.
Aaron and his other two sons were not allowed to touch their bodies or mourn for them. They had to continue their service. Aaron’s remaining sons couldn’t eat all of the sin offering themselves so Moses reprimanded them about it. They told Moses that after all that had happened that day, they couldn’t finish eating. Moses understood and forgave them.
In Mark, the devil did not want Jesus and his disciples to cross the lake to Geneseret and mess up his kingdom. He created a storm to scare them away but greater is the power of Jesus than the power of the devil. Jesus spoke the word and the storm calmed to nothing. When they made it to the other side he did the same thing in the man who carried the principality of the region.
Jesus used wisdom in making the man who had been delivered of so many demons stay there instead of coming with him. He went around testifying of what Jesus did for him so that when Jesus came back the very ones who told him to leave, welcomed him.
Lord, may we not do our own thing but do yours. Your ways are so much better.
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