God-drenched living!

While reading today’s chapters, the light bulb came on! Leviticus overwhelmingly describes a God-drenched, God-infused, God-saturated Israel! Every thread of their national fabric has God woven into it, from their priestly garments to their nationally observed festivals. Everything about Israel is about God! He rescued them from Egypt, set them apart from all other nations, and made them holy down to the last detail. They are a God-drenched people!

…I will display my holiness among the people of Israel. I am the Lord who makes you holy. It was I who rescued you from the land of Egypt, that I might be your God. I am the Lord.” (Leviticus 22:32–33, NLT)

And what is the outcome of this?

Happy are you, O Israel! Who is like you, a people saved by the LORD… (Deuteronomy 33:29, ESV)

While that is great for Israel, how does this relate to us believers today? Using Old Testament terminology, the Apostle Peter says this about those who have come to God through Jesus Christ, the Savior.

…you are a chosen people. You are royal priests, a holy nation, God’s very own possession. As a result, you can show others the goodness of God, for he called you out of the darkness into his wonderful light. “Once you had no identity as a people; now you are God’s people. Once you received no mercy; now you have received God’s mercy.” (1 Peter 2:9–10, NLT)

Israel was to display God before the world; that is not hard to do when you are drenched with God! We, too, are to show the world the goodness of God, and when our identity is drenched in God, that is easy to do! Happy are we who have passed from darkness into light!

You are God’s very own possession! But does God saturate the details of your life? Are you living drenched in His identity? Do you and God go through your day, or do you try to do it alone? May the world see the goodness of God by seeing His goodness in our God-drenched lives!

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Today’s reading: Leviticus 22-23 | Tomorrow’s reading: Leviticus 24-25