The Way

We all get God so wrong.

Like when I took my Bible as Fiction class back in college (way before I began following The Way – the one in Scripture, not the cult, I might add), God seemed like a big ‘ol meany who just wanted to smite me because it seemed He didn’t have much else going on.

Oh, boy. How horribly wrong.

What I’m finding in Leviticus is the fact that even though there is a MYRIAD of ways we sin as human beings, God gives us “the out.”

He gives us the act of sacrifice to atone for our sins. He doesn’t allow His children to sit in their grief and guilt.

He gives us an opportunity for peace and complete freedom from the grip of evil.

And He goes one further (as any good father does). He eventually takes on that sacrifice Himself so we don’t even have to burn livestock anymore (and praise God for that!).

We can simply believe in the life, death, and resurrection of Christ Jesus and follow in His beautiful footsteps.

We can walk in the Way that leads to Life.

I can’t say if I were God that I’d ever do such a thing. The smiting seems much more appealing (especially in our current day and age).

The harder thing? To love like Jesus, to the point where we’re the sacrifice for the good of those around us.

Lord, may it be so.