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SHAVING OFF THE HAIR?
FRIDAY, MAY 17
Leviticus 14
Acts 2:37-41
“But it shall be on the seventh day,
that he shall shave all his hair off his
head and his beard and his eyebrows…”
SHAVING OFF THE HAIR?
When beards were shaved forcibly against a person’s will, it was a shameful act done to the person. 2 Samuel 10:4-5: “Wherefore Hanun took David’s servants, and shaved off the one half of their beards, and cut off their garments in the middle, even to their buttocks, and sent them away. When they told it unto David, he sent to meet them, because the men were greatly ashamed: and the king said, Tarry at Jericho until your beards be grown, and then return.”
But when it was done deliberately in Leviticus 14, then it was seen as a sign of spiritual cleansing. Hair is made up of dead cells. The leper was an outcast to all his family and loved ones. He longed to rejoin society and have fellowship with his loved ones instead of dying a painful death alone. Now that he was completely cured, everyone in his life could see clearly that he had been permitted by God to return to them. It would be on the seventh day (seven was seen as a perfect number) signifying that he had been thoroughly examined by the priest and the appropriate offering for cleansing had been done biblically and accepted by the LORD as good enough for him to return home, to the life of the living.
The leper would be more than happy to comply with whatever the LORD demanded as long as he could have his life back. The hair on his head, beard and eyebrows would be shaved off. He would definitely look different from everyone. He had to wash his clothes and his body, after which he would be declared clean. The leper and his loved ones would never forget this experience of deliverance. A sinner delivered from his bondage to sin and of death and hell should also be prepared to do whatever the LORD demands of him to show his loved ones that he has been cleansed by the blood of Christ. He is now born again and is living in the land of the living. One of the first things the LORD demands is that he be baptised. Thus, those who say they are believers but are reluctant to be baptised have a serious problem regarding true salvation.
MEMORISATION: Leviticus 14:8
PRAYER: Help me to obey Thee unconditionally all the days of my life, O Father. In Jesus’ Name I pray. Amen.