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Today’s Bible Reading: Leviticus 8-11

Today’s Devotional: Leviticus 8:1-5

So Moses did as the Lord commanded him

Moses had received the sacrificial instructions for the people, and additional instructions for the priests. The spiritual significance of Leviticus 1-7 is unparalleled to any other possible spiritual experience that anyone can have. God provides a way for restoring fellowship with Himself and with one another. Christ is the only thing which can anchor true fellowship and relationship with God and one another. Without the Sacrificial worship there is no way for man to have our relationship with God restored and there is no way for lasting restoration to happen with our relationships between one another.

The emphasis now in the first few verses of Leviticus 8, is on Moses’ obedience to the Lord’s command to communicate God’s heart for worship and His vision for the Children of Israel. There can never be service completed properly without the vision of the Lord for service communicated completely and properly. Moses was responsible for communicating the whole counsel the Lord had given Him. To omit anything would have invalidated the service to be performed.

Individuals the Lord has placed within the Body of Christ for the purpose of equipping and edifying the Body unto Spiritual Maturity have serious responsibilities. One which requires continual and repeated encounters with the Lord to receive step by step direction for the equipping and edifying of the Body. The Word of God is living and so is the Spirit of God. If we receive the instruction and vision from the Lord for a specific situation and walk that out obediently and yet every other situation and circumstance we just revert back to the same method and way of addressing the situation or circumstance we have missed the point entirely.

It would be like a pastor in seminary or once long ago having fresh revelation and application for scripture in their life then at that moment; then never revisiting a relationship to receive fresh application and revelation for the body several years later. The pastor understands the Power of the Word of God but has missed the power of the Spirit of God. A similar folly was committed by the children of Israel later as they enter the promised land and even throughout their history and through the time of the kings. They had left their first love, they had left a real living relationship with the God of the Bible for a duplicatable and controllable method of growth and development which could be described and perfected in their strength over time.

The obedience of a servant of the Lord begins with constant and continual returning to Him, listening, and then obedience. The way to obedience is relationship. Relationship with Jesus Christ and with one another in the Body. The product then of an obedient servant is a body which is equipped and edified.