How particular God is.
"This is a lasting ordinance for the generations to come, wherever you live: You must not eat any fat or any blood." [Lev. 3:17] I remember the no blood part but not the no fat. My middle child would have been a perfect Jew. Growing up he picked the fat off of everything. Even bacon.
But why no fat? When it gives so much flavor? Are God's dietary restrictions arbitrary or are they for the health of His people? I don't think anything God asks of us is arbitrary or the busy work we suspected most of our teachers in Middle School had assigned to keep or energy channeled.
I believe God has a reason for everything He asks of us. But I'm not always comfortable assigning that meaning and I'm equally not as comfortable assigning the most obvious meaning to it. I do not pretend to know the mind of God. I find knowing when it comes to God can be presumptuous. And what you go down that path you feel that you know everything. I think God prizes faith and obedience. I think knowledge is way over rated. Yes, we should study and seek to know God. But I think it's more like knowing a person than knowing facts, like the why and how of God.
I read the Bible for hints and glimpses. I read it with the knowledge that Jews had been searching and interpreting the scriptures for centuries and missed the coming of God's son.
So what am I missing?
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