[Lev 26-27] A Love Letter’s Signature:
We all have received letters signed with a dramatic signature and flowing script;
With All My Love, _______.
The book of Leviticus is a love letter from the Father to His children. He has bestowed upon them His privileged love, His private land collection, His wealth, His possessions and more. As we read this we are struck by His reminder of “I am the Lord your God who brought you out of Egypt, out of bondage”. Over and over He has told the Israelites of this fact so that by now it is imprinted upon their mind. They have heard it and heard it and heard it until they sleep hearing it, eat hearing it, walk hearing it, work hearing it. One would think that by now they would be saying it along with God…but wait…Numbers is but ahead as is Judges, the Kings and Chronicles. All present a history of the children who heard yet chose to reject.
Today as I walked into the Assisted Living place to teach my precious senior saints whom I have grown to love deeply, as my passionate love letters, I looked for one in particular. Not finding him I went looking for him. I asked him if he was coming only to hear once again, “I don’t think so”. He has heard the gospel over and over, he has seen and felt my love for him and yet to my grief he has chosen to not have any interest in spiritual matters. My heart, like God’s, is heavy. He has seen the blessings that God has poured out upon him just as God said “I send the rain upon the just and the unjust”. Why? Because He is not willing that any should perish. That is why He sent his son, His only son. The tears are heavy on my eyelids as I am sure they are on God’s.
Chapter 26 is God’s farewell letter of His instructions to the children of Israel. It is His signature of His thoughts to them. It is His way of saying, I have done all I could to, I have told you all I could tell you, now it is up to you to choose. If there was ever a clear cut conclusion to a “letter” or to a “book” this is it. As we have been reading each day through God's Love Letter of Leviticus we have been told that we are to be holy as He is holy and now God says without holiness there will be the consequences.
Are we listening? Or are we like the Israelites who are there living in the Presence of the Most Holy God and yet becoming dull of hearing? Where are you today? It is my prayer that this verse describes you.
1Cor 3:2-3 You yourselves are our letter, written on our hearts, known and read by everyone, revealing that you are a letter of Christ, delivered by us, written not with ink but by the Spirit of the living God, not on stone tablets but on tablets of human hearts.
