Day 49

God gives us a choice and never forces us, right? It didn’t seem Aaron had a choice in whether he wanted to be a priest or not. These days, if you ‘run from your calling’, you probably end up not feeling fulfilled. Not sure what it was in Aaron’s days. Was it death? But it wasn’t so with Jonah. This is not me insinuating that Aaron should have refused to be a priest. I am simply pondering on my readings and what is going on here. This begs the question, do people fear God because he can ‘destroy’ them or because they love him. I’d rather operate from a place of love, not fear. I am still struggling with some parts of my reading, quite frankly.

The warnings given to Aaron were for his good right, and as the saying goes, to be forewarned is to be forearmed, but they do sound scary — death. The way death is used sometimes seems like a finality to one’s entire existence. But there is life after death, right? Humans have been scared of dying right from time. Why? If there is life after death and heaven and hell, should we be so afraid of leaving this world? Even when people say they are rest assured of where they are going, there is still that fear lurking somewhere. Why? Fear of the unknown? Shouldn’t once faith be more than fear? 🤔

The laws on sexual relationships begin to abort intrafamily relationships, unlike in Genesis, where people married their sisters, cousins etc. Relatives married each other. At this point, I guess the world was populated enough to avoid people marrying into their families.

Some of the sexual relations we see today have been long in existence! If they were not, God wouldn’t have had to put laws around them.

18:21 — People sacrificed their children? This seems like some Nollywood movie.