the Fourth Week after Easter
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Daily Devotionals
Day by Day Devotional - Year 1 of 5
Leviticus 2:1-16
If the burnt offering calls to mind the sweet savour of Christ in His death, the meat (or meal) offering corresponds to the perfection of His life as a man on earth. Indeed this offering requires neither victim nor blood, but only flour, oil, incense and salt. The humanity of the Lord corresponds to the grain of corn finely ground; His birth and baptism by the Holy Spirit to being kneaded and anointed with oil; His testing by suffering either visibly or in a hidden way to the heat of the frying pan, the pan or the oven. These things were for the Father a perfume of the highest value. The believer presents to God this perfect life of Jesus and gets from it his own nourishment. Let us consider this wonderful Man in the gospels. His dependence, His patience, His trust in God, His meekness, His wisdom, His kindness and His devotedness – these did not change even through all His sufferings. These are some of the wonderful thoughts which come to us in the offering of fine flour sprinkled with incense. It is "a thing most holy" (vv. 3, 10). Leaven, a picture of sin, did not come into it, neither did honey, a symbol of human affections. In contrast, salt, a picture of separation for God, who preserves from corruption, marked the life of Jesus and should never be lacking in our lives (Mark 9:50; Colossians 4:6).
