Leviticus 8 & 9
In Exodus, Aaron was busy helping the Israelites fashion a false god while Moses was away getting instructions from God. Yet here in Leviticus God's grace and mercy is revealed in that one who so quickly fell away from serving the one true God is ordained and inaugurated into the service of God. With much ritual, Aaron and his son's are ordained into the priesthood.
God will call whom God will call and sometimes, no most often, it is amazing to behold. Pastors and priests are human. Sin pervades our very beings. Yet, God in his infinite mercy forgives our sins and leads us to serve him. For some of us, I think that sometimes it is our very falling away in years past that has prepared us for this ministry. We are aware of our sinful natures. We are aware of our need for forgiveness. Therefore, we can have empathy and compassion for those in the flock who have fallen as well. We understand their need for forgiveness; the need of others to know that even though they have turned their backs on God, he has not turned his back on them. For those whom he has called to follow him into the kingdom; he will never stop calling. By the blood of his own Son, he ordains and inaugurates them into the priesthood of all believers.
In Exodus, Aaron was busy helping the Israelites fashion a false god while Moses was away getting instructions from God. Yet here in Leviticus God's grace and mercy is revealed in that one who so quickly fell away from serving the one true God is ordained and inaugurated into the service of God. With much ritual, Aaron and his son's are ordained into the priesthood.
God will call whom God will call and sometimes, no most often, it is amazing to behold. Pastors and priests are human. Sin pervades our very beings. Yet, God in his infinite mercy forgives our sins and leads us to serve him. For some of us, I think that sometimes it is our very falling away in years past that has prepared us for this ministry. We are aware of our sinful natures. We are aware of our need for forgiveness. Therefore, we can have empathy and compassion for those in the flock who have fallen as well. We understand their need for forgiveness; the need of others to know that even though they have turned their backs on God, he has not turned his back on them. For those whom he has called to follow him into the kingdom; he will never stop calling. By the blood of his own Son, he ordains and inaugurates them into the priesthood of all believers.
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