Numbers 8

At first glance I read Numbers 8 and all I can think of is RULES, RULES, RULES on what it looks like to be "set apart" apart as a Levite and how now it is so great b/c it doesn't work that way.

Then . . . you think deeper and well here you go. Yes, God set up all of this standards initially on how to purify the Levites and how they were to live in order to "set apart", and that was under the Old Covenant and now we are under the New Covenant . . . BUT. . . but really it seems to me that God showed an AMAZING amount of grace in proving the standards in which "set apart" the Levites. He provided a way to show Himself. It may not have been easy, but it was clear.

Today... things look a little different, our instructions are not so clear as to how to be "set apart" under the New Covenat in this culture. . . but God's word does remain true and should be applied to life in community so we can help each other to be SET APART.

Press on!