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Daily Devotionals
Day by Day Devotional - Year 1 of 5
Leviticus 19:26 to Leviticus 20:27
This section of the book, comprising ch. 19 and 20, declares throughout that Israel were to be the holy people of a holy God. And almost every one of the commandments these chapters contain ends with the reminder "I am the LORD your God". How much more should those who today form part of the family of God reproduce the holiness of the "holy Father" whose children they are (John 17:11). Peter quotes Leviticus 19:2, and concludes it with the words, "But as he which hath called you is holy, so be ye holy" (1 Peter 1:15-16). Here it is not just "for I am holy", but "as". What a standard that sets for us!
V. 32 brings to our attention the respect due to the aged, a matter to which a young Christian must never fail to take heed. Our Christianity must be evident in all our comportment; not only in our abstention from the horrible sins that God is obliged to denounce in His Word, but in the thousand details in which love and practical righteousness are to be exercised (vv. 34-36). Let us never forget that we have been called by the worthy name of Christ (James 2:7), so that our conduct according to what it is, either honours or dishonours that precious name.
