To Read Leviticus

TO READ LEVITICUS?

My word that goes out from my mouth: it will not return to me empty, but will accomplish what I desire (V.11). 

Isaiah 55:6-13

Reading

“Do I really have to read Leviticus?” I remember a friend asked me this when we were walking home after a youth group. We’d been challenged to read the whole Bible. But my friend said: “The Old Testament seems so boring and difficult.” 

Lots of Christians feel like this. But the Old Testament, including Leviticus, is really important. Its books share the law God gave His people, tell us lots about who God is and prepare us to read the story of Jesus. 

Every book of the Bible has a job to do to teach us more about God (ISA. 55:11). The whole text is alive and powerful (HEB. 4:12), and it is useful to teach, correct and instruct us (2 TIM. 3:16). The Holy Spirit will use the things we’ve read, even from Leviticus, to help us live for God. Even if He doesn’t remind us of some of the things we’ve read until a long time later. There are plenty of things in there worth thinking about—but we don’t have to understand it all straightaway. We just need to make space to read it and ask God to make sense of it all to us, bit by bit. 

Reading the Bible fills our minds with God’s ways. And the Holy Spirit will guide us in these ways. That’s a great reason to read Leviticus and the other sixty-five books as well. 

To pray about…

Father, I want to learn to love the Bible more and more. Teach me and help me to live it, be encouraged by it and help others to know it too. Amen.

TO UNDERSTAND THE BIBLE, WE NEED TO TAKE TIME TO READ IT AND THINK ABOUT IT WITH ITS AUTHOR.

Youth Edition – Our Daily Bread Ministries