Scripture Union Encounter With God 3rd February 2023
Encounter With God Daily Devotional for 3 February 2023
Scripture Union Encounter With God 3rd February 2023
Encounter With God Daily Devotional for 3 February 2023
Read and Digest Today’s Encounter With God Daily Devotional Message for Today.
TODAY’S TOPIC: CLEAN BODY AND SOUL
SCRIPTURE: Leviticus 15
Pray for wisdom to take all necessary steps to keep yourself in good physical and spiritual health.
We cannot equate ancient medicine with ours today, and God’s dealings with Israel reflect the times. This chapter contains instructions for dealing with the discharge of bodily fluids, both the natural and the unusual, in both men and women. In a world without antibiotics, there was very little that medical science had to offer to patients should such fluids be infected. Notice how often the word ‘wash’ occurs in the text. The main strategy was to take hygienic precautions by keeping body, utensils and clothing as clean as was possible under the prevailing conditions, and to avoid all physical contacts.
This was the world of the woman who had a flow of blood for 12 years before she was healed by Jesus. She had suffered many things from physicians and had spent all she had to no avail.
We are not told that the woman’s illness had anything to do with personal sin. There is a link, however, between all illnesses and the fallen nature of our world – a good reason for the sin offering required in this and other similar laws (vs 15,30,31). Evidently, God links all of this with his holiness and the standard of purity he expects from those who belong to him.
The people of Israel were to separate themselves ‘from things that make them unclean’ (v 31). The same is true of us as the community of God’s people and also as individual followers of the Lord Jesus Christ. According to the writer of Jude, it involves ‘hating even the clothing stained by corrupted flesh’.
‘Come out from them and be separate’.
In what ways are these words relevant to us today?
Bible Reading: Exodus 19,20; Matthew 25
Read More Daily Devotional Messages on TVSeries
