I could do something heroic for a day or two, but daily discipleship, that's hard.

And sometimes it's these daily sacrifices that are the hardest to make.

You don't have to solve all of your problems for the rest of your life.

You just have to keep coming closer to Jesus Christ one day at a time.

Holiness was never meant to be a do-it-yourself project.

Because of Jesus Christ, the way in is open to all of us.

One of the things I love to use as a resource for learning more about the scriptures is the Bible project videos.

And recently I was watching the big picture overview they have on the book of Leviticus, and they pointed out a principle I had never noticed before.

So at the very end of the book of Exodus, the tabernacle is complete. God's glory descends on it and fire in a cloud. It's the moment that Israel's been waiting for. God is now coming to dwell with his people. But then we read, Moses could not enter the tent of the meeting or tabernacle because the cloud had settled on it. And that's how Exodus ends. The man who had talked to God on Sinai

now can't enter the tabernacle. Flip the page to Leviticus chapter one, it's the same story.

The Lord called to Moses and spoke to him from the tent. God's on the inside, but Moses is still

on the outside. But then when we turn to the Book of Numbers,

something has changed. In Numbers chapter 1, verse 1, we read, the Lord spoke to Moses in the

tent of meeting. So now Moses has come inside. Leviticus only covers a month of Israel's history, but it shows us the way in. It shows us how

Moses went from outside the presence of God to inside his presence. And the key is holiness.

As the Lord declares in Leviticus over and over again, he'll say, I am the Lord your God,

consecrate yourselves and be holy because I am holy.

This theme appears throughout the book.

A few chapters later, we read, be holy because I, the Lord your God, am holy.

And I think this is an important principle for us to remember because it's easy to get

lost in Leviticus. Lots of rules, lots of details, and a lot of them don't apply to us anymore.

In fact, if we were to think about the doctrine principles application framework that we've

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