Today, I am reading and commenting on Leviticus 19-21.

My thought when I read today’s passage was that the rules laid out in this passage were about the first command God gave Moses  in this passage for the Israelites: “Be holy because I, the Lord your God, am holy.” 

• Respect your father and mother
• Observe the Sabbath
• Do not make metal gods for yourselves
• Do not seek revenge or bear a grudge, but love your neighbor as yourself

All of these are about being holy.  I could list many more of the commands given here which are about being holy, but I think you can read them for yourself.  Later in the passage it says this, “‘Consecrate yourselves and be holy, because I am the Lord your God. Keep my decrees and follow them. I am the Lord, who makes you holy.”  That tells me that God was not telling us that keeping His commands would make us holy, because He made us holy.  Rather, God is telling us that He has made us holy, and as a result we would do these things.  The holiness which God has given to us will lead us to act in this way.  When we find ourselves failing to keep these instructions we realize that we need to turn to God and request that He pour out His Spirit and power to make us holy.

I use the daily Bible reading schedule from “The Bible.net” for my daily Bible reading.