I have decided that I don’t like eating breakfast while reading through Leviticus. For those of you that think that sounds odd, here is a taste of this mornings reading from Leviticus 7:

“This is the law of the guilt offering. It is most holy.  In the place where they kill the burnt offering they shall kill the guilt offering, and its blood shall be thrown against the sides of the altar. And all its fat shall be offered, the fat tail, the fat that covers the entrails, the two kidneys with the fat that is on them at the loins, and the long lobe of the liver that he shall remove with the kidneys. The priest shall burn them on the altar as a food offering to the LORD; it is a guilt offering.

I don’t know about you, but I don’t find that to be the most appetizing reading. The truth is, there is some stuff in the Bible is just nasty. There is a lot of stuff in it that is hard. And, it calls us to do all kinds of nutty, counter intuitive stuff as we follow Jesus.
Maybe its time that we stop looking at the Bible as the “Basic Instructions Before Leaving Earth” (just typing that made me more nauseous than Leviticus ever has), and  embrace it for what it is; God’s plan for all humanity and His difficult call to live for Jesus. The call is messy and hard, but following Jesus is so worth it!