It’s not about appearances. It’s about reality.

I don’t know if that picture fooled you at all, if you thought it was actual water coming out of the faucet instead of a piece of paper. Fun thing to try to make it look like it real water. 

When the Bible says we are set apart to God, He does call us to look different in some ways as a small part of it, but reality matters more than appearance. 

Leviticus‬ ‭8‬:‭6‬-‭8‬ ‭says, “And Moses brought Aaron and his sons, and washed them with water. And he put upon him the coat, and girded him with the girdle, and clothed him with the robe, and put the ephod upon him, and he girded him with the curious girdle of the ephod, and bound it unto him therewith. And he put the breastplate upon him: also he put in the breastplate the Urim and the Thummim.”

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The Old Testament priesthood isn’t around as such anymore, but we are all to be set apart to God. 

1 Peter 2:9 says, “But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light:” 

A few verses earlier, 1 Peter 2:5 says, “Ye also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, an holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ.”

We don’t need to offer animal sacrifices, but we should “offer up spiritual sacrifices.” What should that look like in your life today?

Today’s Bible reading is Leviticus 8.