A “through the bible” devotion from Leviticus 16.
Every spring my dad would dig up the small yard on the side of our house for a garden. Once spade full at a time, he turned over the dirt, littered with a few leaves from last fall and plant stems from last year’s garden. Once it was all turned over, he would rake out the big clumps until the whole garden was a smooth plot of dirt, reading for planting. Every spring, he started a new garden.
That’s how I picture the day of atonement described in Leviticus 16. There is a whole lot of detail about animals, water, blood, and fire that sounds so strange to us. But when it’s all said and done, “You will be clean from all your sins before the Lord” (Leviticus 16:30).
It’s an annual reset when you get to start over. It doesn’t matter what you did the year before. It’s a fresh start, a clean slate, an expunged record.
That sounds really good, doesn’t it? It’s nothing less than the gospel, the good news of forgiveness that ultimately comes through Christ. With him, any day is be a day of atonement. Enjoy it!
Waite for it... 