February 22nd (Sunday) -- Quarantining Cooties

Quarantining Cooties: Leviticus 13:1-59

Would you like fries & a drink with that head? Mark 6:1-29

Mouth Muzzle: Psalm 39:1-13

Winking and Chattering: Proverbs 10:10


That was a pretty cool retreat up at Camp Sumatunga! I hope everybody who went had as good a time as I did.

The teaching in Leviticus 13 seems pretty harsh. If you’ve got cooties you’ve got to stay away from everybody else. And stuff a dead person falls on has to be destroyed (that was back in Leviticus 11:33).

Has anybody ever heard of Louis Pasteur or Robert Koch? In 1876 they individually (unknown to each other) demonstrated that contagion (an infection on someone) could be passed from person to person. Until then, the western world didn’t understand things like germs.

But God did! The earliest evidence of sanitary practices & public health is found in the first 5 books of the Bible. What to many people seemed like a bunch of Jewish religious hooey turned out to prevent the Jews from having many of the devastating plagues that hit other nations, most notably Egypt. Just because they didn’t understand why God told them to do these things doesn’t mean they shouldn’t do them. These practices saved many lives.

Fast forward to the 21st century. We have to trust God & do what He says. To do otherwise would be foolish, especially when we have history to use for wisdom in today’s world.