" If the disease... Covers all the skin... From head to foot... He shall pronounce that person clean" (Leviticus 13:12, 13).
Sin is a spiritual disease that has had strong parallels to leprosy in the natural world. Leprosy was a progressive, incurable, contagious disease. It was dangerous even when it was a small spot.
Why would the law pronounce a person who had become covered in the disease to be clean?
Charles Spurgeon pointed out (striking parallel to the consciousness of sin.
When we think we only have a spot of sin, we are unclean.
It is when we realize that we are totally consumed by sin that we can be clean!
God wants us to understand that our own self righteousness is as filthy rags.
Only as we abandon our claim to anything good before God can he come in as our great high priest and make us clean.
Pity those who feel they only need God is a Band-Aid on their sin and don't comprehend that they are totally consumed by the dreaded disease.
Come to Jesus repent, helpless and hopeless.
He will make his eternal pronouncement : You are clean!
Daily reading
Leviticus 13:1 – 59
Psalm 39:1 – 13
Proverbs 10:10
Mark 6:1 – 29
Sin is a spiritual disease that has had strong parallels to leprosy in the natural world. Leprosy was a progressive, incurable, contagious disease. It was dangerous even when it was a small spot.
Why would the law pronounce a person who had become covered in the disease to be clean?
Charles Spurgeon pointed out (striking parallel to the consciousness of sin.
When we think we only have a spot of sin, we are unclean.
It is when we realize that we are totally consumed by sin that we can be clean!
God wants us to understand that our own self righteousness is as filthy rags.
Only as we abandon our claim to anything good before God can he come in as our great high priest and make us clean.
Pity those who feel they only need God is a Band-Aid on their sin and don't comprehend that they are totally consumed by the dreaded disease.
Come to Jesus repent, helpless and hopeless.
He will make his eternal pronouncement : You are clean!
Daily reading
Leviticus 13:1 – 59
Psalm 39:1 – 13
Proverbs 10:10
Mark 6:1 – 29