March 1st: Leviticus 5-6, Psalm 105 and 1 Corinthians 14

Life isn't fair.

That probably doesn't come as much of a news flash. "This just in... Timmy Johnson, eight years old, finds out life is in fact not fair more at five o'clock." You and I learned this lesson early on when you hung out with your friend down the street who had the entire Lego Pirates set and it just sat on his dresser never touched after it had been assembled and even though you treasured Legos, and desperately wanted the Black Seas Barracuda, your parents couldn't afford to buy you it for Christmas. OK, maybe this particular lesson was only me...

The interesting thing in Leviticus 5-6 is just how fair God really is. He knew that not everyone would be on the same level. He knew that some people would easily be able to lose a goat or a lamb every so often (or regularly). He knew how much he had given them to begin with. But other families would never have that ability. A lamb or a goat was a stretch. A huge stretch. They couldn't even afford a pidgin. That's freaking poor. If you can't go out under an overpass and get a pidgin, you my friend are down and out. And God created a fair system for you to come back into a right relationship with Him.

It's the same principle found in the Parable of the Talents. If you've been given much, God expects a lot back either in ROI, or in your sacrifices right now. Kinda sobering. Seems a lot of prosperity guys forget that part. You ask for bigger boarders, don't forget what comes with that... an equal portion of responsibility for the poor, the widows and the foreigners. How's that for fair? I probably would have had to share the Barracuda with my brother and let's just say that wasn't going to happen.