I was talking to a member of the flock last week who told me that they had bought a one year Bible and were powering their way through Genesis. "Right now the reading is fun," the person told me. But in a few weeks I'll be starting Leviticus. Ugh!"
Well, yes. After reading the high jinks of Abraham, Issac, Jacob and Moses, and being impressed by the unending mercy and grace of God toward a sinful and disobedient people, Leviticus can be a challenge to work through. But skip over the third book of the Bible? Author Kathleen Norris would advise against it:
In this light, the apparently ludicrous attention to detail in Leviticus, where God is involved in the minutiae of daily life, right down to cooking and cleaning, might be seen instead as the love of a God who desires to be present to us in everything we do.
From "Acedia and Me," page 192.
