by Zeke Flores<\/p>\n
“Thus you shall keep the sons of Israel separated from their uncleanness, so that they will not die in their uncleanness by their defiling My tabernacle that is among them” (Leviticus 15:31).<\/p>\n
Leviticus 15 deals with bodily discharges, which is uncomfortable reading for most of us.\u00a0But the point is clear: God was teaching Israel that uncleanness wasn’t about shame, it was about awareness. Certain conditions made a person temporarily unfit for worship, and God wanted His people to approach Him thoughtfully.<\/p>\n
The bigger picture is this: God cares about the condition of our hearts when we come to Him. Not perfection. Not performance. Just honesty and awareness. When something in our lives is off, He wants us to acknowledge it and let Him address it.<\/p>\n
We don’t have to hide our mess; we just bring it to Him. He’s not surprised by anything in us. He simply wants us to come with sincerity.<\/p>\n
If something has been cluttering your heart-stress, sin, distraction, resentment-bring it to God. Let Him clean what needs cleaning so you can enjoy His presence freely.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
by Zeke Flores “Thus you shall keep the sons of Israel separated from their uncleanness, so that they will not die in their uncleanness by their defiling My tabernacle that is among them” (Leviticus 15:31). Leviticus 15 deals with bodily discharges, which is uncomfortable reading for most of us.\u00a0But the point is clear: God was…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[27],"tags":[867,179,202],"class_list":["post-95822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","tag-purity","tag-sin","tag-uncleanness"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":11834,"url":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/since-a-sin-offering-was-required-is-masturbation-a-sin\/","url_meta":{"origin":95822,"position":0},"title":"Since a sin offering was required, is masturbation a sin?","author":"Jeffrey Hamilton","date":"August 28, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"Question: I was wondering if masturbation was a sin even if one didn't have any sinful thoughts when he does it. 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Hamilton Text: Ephesians 5:1-8 \u00a0 I.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Under the Old Testament, there are a series of rules dealing with unclean things \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0A.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0I am finding that people are condemning as unclean things that God never mentioned. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0B.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0The rules confuse people, mostly because they do not understand what uncleanness was about.\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Audio"","block_context":{"text":"Audio","link":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/category\/audio\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":3851,"url":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/uncleanness\/","url_meta":{"origin":95822,"position":2},"title":"Uncleanness (Article)","author":"Jeffrey Hamilton","date":"April 5, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"by Jeffrey W. 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