Today’s passage is for me another great example of how the Old Testament builds a foundation for the New Testament. The part of today that I really want to focus on the first three verses. Aaron’s sons knew the law and the procedure as well as anyone. They handled sacrifices and had been told exactly how to do everything, very clearly. They next to Moses and Aaron were “the guys.” The one problem with being “the guy” is that everyone looks up to you and if you are not careful, you forget that you are “the guy” but you are still just a small fish in a very big pond. What they chose to do was wrong, but I think scripture makes it very clear that they were aware that they were doing wrong. It appears that they got careless and believed that their actions would go unpunished.
For us it is very clearly laid out in the New Testament in the book of James. James 4:17 tells us that if we know the good we ought to do and do not do it, it is sin. That is pretty clear. I think the same is true, that if we know the evil that we are about to do, but still do it is sin. Now, I want to be clear that if you do wrong and do not know, it is still wrong. What I think is important is that if you know and still choose to do it, there is no easy forgiveness in that. When a two year old does something wrong, sometimes it is still cute because they do not know, but when a 12 year old does it and knows it is wrong there is nothing cute about that. However, we as adults fall into the same trap that Aaron’s sons did and that the book of James warns us of. We know what we are doing is not right, but we still do it, even when we don’t like ourselves for doing it. Paul talks about this in Romans 7. We are people, and it is clear from this story in Leviticus, that do things that are not good, even when we know they are not good. It is our nature, and we cannot beat it alone. My prayer for you and for me today is that we will seek out God and ask for His divine help to avoid temptation and that He will put someone in each of our lives that can help us battle thru sin. There are many sins that tempt us and it is easy for us to fall into our old bad habits, we must not go at this alone.
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