Hate Leviticus? Ever watch "Love Comes Softly"? It is a fiction movie based on Janette Oke's Love Comes Softly series (twelve series in total). In the first movie, Marty unexpectantly lost her husband when they just found their land in the West. Marty had to give up her homeland in order to move into the west with her husband, and now she was trapped in the west with deceased husband and a baby coming! So a stranger, Clark, had to propose her to marry him for the baby's sake and for Clark's young daughter's sake! So she married him in order to shelter her own baby and raise Clark's daughter properly. In the end of the year, she aimed to go back to the east, but love slowly comes! She finally fell in love with Clark! Yes, our love for Leviticus may come slowly!
I love how God called all of us out of darkness into His marvelous light. I think He called us to immerse ourselves into His old laws in Leviticus. Let's see if Leviticus will open up some new mysteries for us. Here is our "No trick or treat"!
"But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for His own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light." -1 Peter 2:9
I'm grateful that we are chosen to be His own royal priesthood! In Leviticus, Aaron and his sons were chosen to be priests, so they had to go through the consecration process. They washed themselves, dressed themselves up according to the specific instruction, and so on. But here's one thing that sticks. Moses had to take some of ram's blood on the lobe of their right ears and on the thumb of their right hands and on the big toe of their right feet.
What does that mean?
That I do not know, but when I read this, I visualized the concept of Passover when the Lord passed over those homes that had the doorposts covered with the blood of lamb (the tenth plague). The Lord didn't abandon the firstborn of Israel to save Israelities! The Lord took His time to tell them to kill their lamb and mark their blood on the doorposts. He took His time for those people!
In the same way, I felt like the Lord is telling us that He is taking His time for Moses to take some of ram's blood on OUR lobe, thumb, and toe because we are His priests. We are His body of Christ even "as far as the east is from the west". God didn't want to abandon even the smallest part of the Body of Christ, so He covered those parts of the body with the blood. What a promise! Our ears, fingers, and toes are the farthest part of our body from the heart. That's why the frost nips are often observed at the end of those body parts (including nose), if any of them are turning "pasty white" as you began to lose the sensation, then it is a first warning sign of frost nip! But the good news is that:
None of us will be removed from the Body of Christ for God had protected us from the FROST NIP. Jesus prayed, "Holy Father, keep them in your name, which you have given me, that they may be one, even as we are one" before he died and when he died and resurrected, his blood covered us all. AMEN!
Even God won't let us abandon the book of Leviticus! No frost nip here. The blood may flow into Leviticus soon...
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