8/14/2008 6:38 PM
My Worship Time Focus: Purpose of the book of Leviticus
Bible Reading &
Meditation Reference: No reference for today
Message
of the verse: I want to say
something about the task that is before me, and that is studying the book of
Leviticus. This will probably be the
most difficult book that I have ever tried to study since I have been doing
these spiritual diaries. I know that
Leviticus is the first book that Jewish parents teach to their children and
therefore that makes if very important for me to study it.
The theme
of the book is the Holiness of God and that is a very wonderful thing to
study. God is perfectly holy and He
wants His children to be holy. Eight
times in the Bible the Lord says, “Be holy, for I am holy.” I believe that seven of these are found in
the OT and Peter then writes it in his letter also.
There is a
lot of clean and unclean things found in the book of Leviticus and the clean
represent the holy things and the unclean represent the unholy things and of
course God wants holiness to be developed in His children.
According
to Dr. Wiersbe this book was written in the first month of the second year
after the children of Israel
were brought out of the land
of Egypt
There are
seven divisions or sub-themes found in the book of Leviticus all having to do
with holiness. A holy God; A holy priesthood; A holy people; A holy land; and A
holy Savior.
In Dr.
Wiersbe book he uses a similar outline system that he used in part of his book
on Exodus by going to different themes and not using a verse by verse study
from the first chapter to the end of the book.
I believe that this system will help me to understand the different
themes or sub-themes in this book and therefore understand it better.
In conclusion
to this first SD on Leviticus I would like to say that I want to learn to live
in a more holy manner before my Lord as a result of studying this book.
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