I am using the daily Bible reading schedule from “The Bible.net” for my daily Bible reading. I had been using One Year Bible Online, but it was time for a change.

Today, I am reading and commenting on Leviticus 8-9.

    This passage gives us an idea how much work it was to become right with God under the Old Testament. First, Moses had to ordain the priests by making the offerings for them and then purifying them. The ordination took seven days. When it was completed the priests, Aaron and his sons, then had to make a sin offering for themselves. It was only after this that they could start the process of making the offerings necessary to make the rest of the people right with God. It seems that we forget what a wonderful gift Christ provided us by taking away the necessity of following such a procedure to become right with God. I think that we, all too often, fail to understand the magnitude of the gap which separates our sinful selves from God, a gap which can only be overcome by the blood of Christ.