Set Free - Jan. 20-24

Well we’ve done it, this week we finished Leviticus! It can be a tough read but I’ve really been blessed by what I’ve been learning and what I’ve heard about what some of you have been learning! So let’s dive into it one more time this year.

I will place my residence among you, and I will not reject you. I will walk among you and be your God, and you will be my people. I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, so that you would no longer be their slaves. I broke the bars of your yoke and enabled you to live in freedom. - Leviticus 26:11-13

What an amazing promise this is that God gives to His chosen people. These few verses are another example of those types and shadows of Jesus that we see all over the Old Testament. It is so like the salvation of christians, and I especially love the part where God reminds them of what He has done.

God brought them out of Egypt, God broke their chains of slavery to the Egyptians, and God enabled them to live in freedom in the promised land. This is just like what Jesus did for us! Most of us probably know the rest of the story with the Israelites,they would forget the powerful work that God had done to free them. They were often unfaithful and ended up enslaved, whether by other nations or by their own sin.

Unfortunately, the life of a christian can also sometimes look like the ups and downs of the Israelites. We too can forget about the work that Christ accomplished on the cross to free us from bondage to sin. We too can end up volunteering ourselves for slavery to the sin that we’ve already been saved from.

But let’s not be like that, let’s pray that God would open our eyes to be constantly reminded us of what He’s done for us! How better to be reminded than to read His word regularly, to hear it preached weekly, to discuss it daily? So go to Church, read your Bible, fellowship with other believers, that is freedom, and we are called to be free, so let’s be free indeed. Have a great week!