Leviticus 15
DISCHARGES CAUSING UNCLEANNESS
In Leviticus God gave Israel a whole lot of laws that are given a title in my Bible: “Discharges Causing Uncleanness.” These laws detail what a man or woman is to do when they have a bodily discharge, an emission of semen, a monthly period, or other bleeding. What we notice about this is that most of these bodily discharges are of a sexual nature, relating specifically to men or women. Whatever the discharge was, it meant that the person who was affected by it became unclean either for the rest of the day or for a longer period of time. After the uncleanness was finished, the person had to wash, and depending on what it was, offer a sacrifice before they could become clean again.
Discharges of this sort today are a taboo subject in polite society at the moment. We don’t hear about who did what when, or who is having their period at the moment. But what we do see in society around us all the time, and maybe even from ourselves, are discharges from our mouths. Jesus said that it is what comes out of our mouths that makes a person unclean. (Matthew 15 v 11). Very often, just as with the physical, the discharges from our mouths are sexual through swearing, crude jokes, smutty remarks and innuendos. We hear it all around us, and if we join in we also become unclean in God’s sight.
Let’s watch out for the evil that might discharge from our mouths, and if it already has, then let’s repent and ask for forgiveness so that we can once again be clean in the sight of God.
May the Lord grant us humility and gentleness in what we say this week.
With love in our Lord,
Robert
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