(The Subversive Mission of Leviticus)
When you were growing up, did you ever want to be a spy? Secret Agents always seem to have all the fun. Of course, there’s a lot of danger and risk, but if you pay attention to the movies closely enough, you’ll soon realize that the really good guy always wins. Ethan Hawke, James Bond, xXx, they all come through any challenge unscathed.
Of course, the real world doesn’t work that way. Real secret agent work involves a great deal of risk, but at the end of the day, the agent who does his job knows that he brought a little of the influence of his home country into the foreign land, and that is quite worth the risk.
Would it surprise you to know that God always speaks of his people as if they are secret agents in the world? Would it surprise you to know that your mission in life is to bring a little bit of the influence of God’s Kingdom to bear in this world in which we live? Maybe that isn’t surprising to you, but what might be surprising to you is that the Old Testament book of Leviticus is a manual for people who want to live like Secret Agents for God.