Leviticus 11-13 God’s Rules of Clean/Unclean

As we read these chapters, which to us seems boring, we must stop and ask why God included them. Perhaps one reason is to help the people understand the gravity of sin. Sin encroaches and destroys and so God has given us a visual image of its destruction. In addition these chapters give us rules for what is edible to what is not, and there is also the prescription to keep a nation pure from all that unclean.  

Today we have doctors and health systems that study infectious disease but in the days of Leviticus that was an unknown. How gracious is our God to give us plain and simple rules to keep the body pure of that which would infect them and others. The Israelites wandered in the desert for 40+ years without medical advancement. God was not only the Dr. but also the pharmacist. 

Thank God for the doctors we have today and thank God for His clear prescriptions for healthy living.