Tuesday – Pentateuch

Reading – Leviticus 14-15

Highlight Verses:

““The following instructions are for those seeking ceremonial purification from a skin disease. Those who have been healed must be brought to the priest, who will examine them at a place outside the camp. If the priest finds that someone has been healed of a serious skin disease, he will perform a purification ceremony, using two live birds that are ceremonially clean, a stick of cedar, some scarlet yarn, and a hyssop branch.”
‭‭Leviticus‬ ‭14‬:‭2‬-‭4‬ ‭NLT‬‬

The priests had to go outside the camp to where the lepers were to begin the cleansing process.

It was likely not a highly sought-after job among the priests.

Still, there were those compassionate souls among them who brought the restoration of God to those who were outcast.

Today is Saint Patrick’s Day and that 11% of Irish heritage in me is rising up again.

Patrick was a slave in Ireland in his younger days.

After he escaped and became a Catholic priest, he could have stayed in safer areas and settled in a comfortable Parrish.

Instead, like the priests who ministered to the lepers, he chose to go where he knew he was needed.

He used his knowledge of Irish culture and of God and brought the Gospel to Ireland.

With a little Holy Spirit intervention, the conversion of the Emerald Island from paganism to Christianity was comprehensive.

Even today, over 76% of residents of Ireland identify as Christian (though to many it is merely cultural).

How affectively are we reaching those who are rejected by the rest of society?
What can you and I do to make a difference?