Leviticus 13-14

(March 27, 2014)
Compare and contrast the methods taken by the ancient Israelites to avoid leprosy (which I think is a symbol of sin) with the carelessness with which we dance around sin – trying to get as close as we can without actually being infected (or sometimes even desiring the infection, but in a manner that we can claim it not to be our fault).  We nuzzle up to the plague-ridden.  We sit on their chairs, we lay in their beds.  We do everything we should not do.  The Lord is very simple in His explanations – when we act as a priest working to heal the leper, we may encounter and try to help them.  But the rest of the time, we should keep our distance from the unclean.

Of course, we are all both lepers, and agents of the Lord – we are clean and unclean.  But we aren’t really talking about people in this symbol, but rather about sin..