It shall be a perpetual statute for your generations
throughout all your dwellings, that ye eat neither fat nor blood. Leviticus, Chapter 3, verse 17.
I just thought this was interesting. I never liked eating fat to start with, but
this makes me glad that I don’t eat it.
I thought that the part about not eating meat with the blood in it had
more to do with God protecting us from health problems that could arise from
the blood. I recently heard a minister
say that Christians weren't to eat meat with the blood in it, because the blood
is the life of the animal and it was used in the sacrifices. There is a passage below that explains this
more. I don’t really know much about all
of this. I just know that if God tells
me not to eat fat or meat with the blood in it, then I don’t want to do
it. I don’t have to know all the reasons
why.
It’s kind of like when we tell our children that
they shouldn’t drink and drive. We don’t
want them to challenge our authority and try to find out first hand about all
the consequences that could possibly come from drinking and driving. It’s not an issue about whether we trust that
they know when to stop drinking prior to driving. It’s not an issue of whether we think they
are safe drivers. (That doesn’t mean
that we shouldn’t try to explain some of these consequences to our
children.) What we really want them to
do is trust our judgment about this situation and just not drink and drive. Well, I think God wants us to follow certain
things just because He has asked us to.
I think that is a sign of our faith in Him.
Here are some related passages:
*Moreover ye shall eat no manner of blood,
whether it be of fowl or of beast, in any of your dwellings. Whatsoever soul it be that eateth any manner
of blood, even that soul shall be cut off from his people. Leviticus, Chapter 7, verses 26-27.
*And whatsoever man
there be of the house of Israel, or of the strangers that sojourn among you,
that eateth any manner of blood; I will even set My face against that soul that
eateth blood, and will cut him off from among his people. For the life of the flesh is in the blood:
and I have given it to you upon the altar to make an atonement for your souls:
for it is the blood that maketh an atonement for the soul. Therefore I said unto the children of Israel
Because this is an example of how I’ve applied this Bible passage to my life, it doesn't necessarily reflect the whole meaning of the passage.
This is a connection I've made from this Bible passage. Please share your connections.
Please click on comments below to share your suggestions. Thanks! Debbie
