Howdy,
Back to Community Bible Study (CBS) in Turlock today, returning after a three-week break for Christmas, we launched into a new book … Leviticus.
You can almost hear the dreary, “Yay, Leviticus.” Subsequently, CBS Turlock’s teaching director, Julie Freeby, joked that it’s said Leviticus is also known as the book where yearlong Bible reading programs die.
And that humor comes from more than merely the fact that Leviticus is only the third book in the Bible — those recent or revived resolutions withering in the year’s first quarter, aligning well with when a resolved reader might hit … Leviticus.
It gets a deeper chuckle than any old broken resolution crack at this time because Leviticus has a reputation for defeating even readers without a New Year’s refreshing momentum. Finely detailed and repetitive in the points of God’s law, Leviticus asks a lot of the reader; but, it also tells a brave and blessed reader a lot about God, His ways, and His interest in having a relationship with His people.
The lesson title for our week in CBS as we took on this new book is “God Teaches Israel to Worship.” Sounds important. And it is, well worth knowing more about. It does take some work, though, the reading through repeated scenarios with details sometimes the same and sometimes shifted slightly, so it’s nice to study it with a group of readers and learners as we discuss the passages and glean from each other too.
Even from Leviticus.
Yay, for Leviticus.
—Billy
Reading. Writing. Living.
P.S. It’s not all so thick or tough to grasp, though; I mean this (sound familiar?) is in Leviticus: “… love your neighbor as yourself” (19:18).
Word Count: 45,793 / On Pace: 44,000 / Year’s Goal: 200,000
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