Today’s Scripture: Leviticus 18-20
Avoid every kind of evil. – 1 Thessalonians 5:22
A quick read through Leviticus 18-20 raises some questions: How low can society go? How deep into sin? How polluted can the human spirit become? How degraded the human race? There are laws and commands in this passage that stagger the mind, and the Lord speaks plainly and bluntly to His people. “You must not do as they do in Egypt, where you used to live, and you must not do as they do in the land of Canaan, where I am bringing you. Do not follow their practices. You must obey my laws and be careful to follow my decrees. I am the Lord your God” (Leviticus 18:3-4).
So they were neither to retain the idolatry of Egypt nor take on the moral standards of the land to which they were going, and they were to abstain from the corruption of their own fleshly desires.
A scientist told me about a 32-inch steel pipe carrying 1,800 pounds of steam pressure that suddenly exploded. People were burned. The room was destroyed. The force was so powerful that the insulation was peeled off the walls. The cause? A small impurity in the weld. The impurity was so tiny no one noticed it. But it blew a thirty-foot hole in that huge steel pipe.
In the Christian life, a blowout begins with a small, slow leak. If we are to avoid visible sins such as immorality and dishonesty, we must deal with the little things–the tiny impurities in the welds of our souls. May God give us wisdom and courage to confront those things that look small but can be used by the Devil to destroy us.
Prayer
Lord, search me and see if I am harboring any tiny impurity in my life that could devastate my walk with You. Amen.
To Ponder
Sin always begins as a tiny impurity, but contains the potential for destruction on a massive scale.
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