Today, I am reading and commenting on Leviticus 14-15.

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I noticed that the cleansing ritual for a person who was cured of leprous disease contained the priest placing some of the blood from the sacrifice on the cleansed person’s right ear, right thumb, and right big toe, then doing the same with some of the oil of the offering.  Which is similar to that done during the ordination of priests.  As I noted when I wrote about the ordination of Aaron and his sons, placing blood and oil on the ear, the thumb, and the big toe has significance.  I am going to express the significance in a slightly different way today from when I covered the ordination.  The right ear here reminds the person who was cleansed to dedicate his ears to listening to the word of God.  The right thumb reminds the person to  dedicate the work of his hands to serving God.  The right big toe reminds the person to dedicate their feet to walking in the path of righteousness which God has shown them.  This reinforces the lesson that we should dedicate ourselves to listening to God’s word, to using our activities to serving Him, and to walking in the path of righteousness on which God guides us.  This is not something just for “special people”, but for everyone.

I am going to do something here I usually refuse to do.  I am going to take a lesson out of the description of what to do with a house which has a “leprous disease” (probably a reference to mold) in its structure that is not intended in the text as I read it.  If there is “disease” in the walls which appears to go deeper than the surface, the priest is to close up the house and wait seven days.  At the end of those seven days, the priest is to examine the house, if the “disease” has not spread, the priest knows that the house is not actually diseased, the thing observed is just discoloration.  However, if the discoloration has spread, the house has a problem and the priest is to remove the stones where the disease is, and scrape off all the plaster, then replace the stones with clean stones and replaster the house.  I am going to say that we should treat ourselves the same way with regards to sin.  If there is sin in our life (if we are like the house when the priest returns to discover that the discoloration has spread) we should cut out the part of us which has the disease and replace it with something clean.  We should take extreme measures to deal with sin in our lives.  If that means giving up friends who encourage us to sin (even if it is only that we find ourselves sinning when we spend time with them), we should cut them out of our lives and replace them with other people with whom we can become friends.  If that means giving up activities which lead us to sin, then we should replace those activities with activities which will not lead us to sin.

And now to tie these two thoughts together.  If we dedicate our ears to listening to God’s word, and our hands to working in service to God, and our feet to walking in the path of righteousness, we will not become once more “unclean” by sinning; we will not need to tear something out of our lives to remove the sin from it.

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