Daily Devotional from Leviticus 27—Verse 21But the field, when it is released in the jubilee, shall be a holy gift to the Lord, like a field that has been devoted. The priest shall be in possession of it.Have you ever hit the reset button on something that wasn’t functioning properly? When the Israelites reached the Promised Land, God distributed land to the tribes. Over the years, as people neede...  Read More

Daily Devotional from Leviticus 26—Verses 3-4If you walk in my statutes and observe my commandments and do them, then I will give you your rains in their season, and the land shall yield its increase, and the trees of the field shall yield their fruit.Verses 1-13 list the blessings of obeying God, while 14-39 pronounce curses for disobedience. We’re in the middle of the five books of the LAW and t...  Read More

Daily Devotional from Leviticus 25—Verse 22When you plant your fields in the eighth year, you will still be eating from the large crop of the sixth year. In fact, you will still be eating from that large crop when the new crop is harvested in the ninth year.Isn’t it amazing how the LORD provided for the Israelites? In this chapter, we see again the concept of laying down the work and trusting God ...  Read More

Daily Devotional from Leviticus 24--Verse 12And they put him in custody, till the will of the Lord should be clear to them.When the man blasphemed the Lord, the Israelites weren’t sure of how to punish him. And so, they waited upon the Lord for wisdom.God gives wisdom to those who ask for it. When we face difficult decisions, do we rely on our own wisdom, or do we slow down and wait for God’s? It’...  Read More

Daily Devotional from Leviticus 23--Verse 2These are the appointed feasts of the Lord that you shall proclaim as holy convocations.What would it look like if we stopped and celebrated more? As Americans, we just keep the pedal to the metal and don’t stop nearly enough.But I like how God instructed Israel to do it. If you were to add up all the holidays listed in chapter 23, you would have 18 days....  Read More

Daily Devotional from Leviticus 22--Verse 32b-33I am the LORD who sanctifies you, who brought you out of the land of Egypt to be your God: I am the LORD.Throughout Leviticus 21-22 we see requirements physically and relationally for the priests, and we see physical requirements for the sacrifices. Throughout this reading we also see the word “blemish” repeated over and over. It was required that th...  Read More

Daily Devotional from Leviticus 21—Verse 23But he shall not go through the veil or approach the altar, because he has a blemish, that he may not profane my sanctuaries, for I am the Lord who sanctifies them.Reading through this long list, you realize just how strict the law was for the Israelites. And rightfully so, the standard for holiness is high, and it has to be, because God can’t lower his s...  Read More

Daily Devotional from Leviticus 20—Verse 23 & 26You must not follow the statutes of the nations I am driving out before you, for they did all these things, and I abhorred them… You are to be holy to me because I, the LORD, am holy, and I have set you apart from the nations to be mine.The nations that filled the ancient land of Canaan participated in worship practices that were chilling. To appease...  Read More

Daily Devotional from Leviticus 19--Verse 16You shall not go around as a slanderer among your people, and you shall not stand up against the life of your neighbor: I am the Lord.Slander is a plague amongst non-believers and believers alike; it seems Satan has a foothold in the church. We damage people’s reputations and sometimes we hardly know the person. Gossip and slander go hand in hand. I thin...  Read More

Daily Devotional from Leviticus 18--Verse 30So keep my charge never to practice any of these abominable customs that were practiced before you, and never to make yourselves unclean by them: I am the Lord your God.There’s no way around it, so I’m just going to dive right in: this chapter is all about sex. Specifically, what kinds of sex are not okay with God. He created us – that means he created u...  Read More

Daily Devotional from Leviticus 17--Verse 11For the life of the flesh is in the blood, and I have given it for you on the altar to make atonement for your souls, for it is the blood that makes atonement by the life.Atonement is one of those “church-y” words that gets said a lot. We know the context of it and that it is related to the cross and that it does something with sin.In this verse, the Heb...  Read More

Daily Devotional from Leviticus 16--Verses 21-22And Aaron shall lay both his hands on the head of the live goat, and confess over it all the iniquities of the people of Israel, and all their transgressions, all their sins. And he shall put them on the head of the goat and send it away into the wilderness by the hand of a man who is in readiness. The goat shall bear all their iniquities on itself t...  Read More