Today's reading is Leviticus 21-25.
Leviticus 21
In this chapter we see God commanding the purity of the priest in their body. No one who has a deformity or has any sickness is to be a priest.
Personally, Yes this is just my thinking here, that the command on not marrying anyone who isn't a virgin has to do with purity in body. Why you may ask? The answer is you can't get a sexually-transmitted disease from someone who never had sex (remember they didn't have blood transfusions back them).
However, whatever reason may be given for God's command on purity in the priest (which I won't discuss here), God says that a person who has a deformity though unable to serve in the tabernacle is still allowed to eat of the holy and even the most holy things (the priest portions of the sacrifices). Yes God has said they can't serve, but he doesn't remove the blessing of being part of the priestly family. These who others may look down on because they are different still have the blessing of being part of the family. They were able to partake of that which an unblemished person would never take part of.
So how do I apply this to today? There are people who may never be able to do ministry in any real sense in the church because of a deformity of other issues, but this doesn't mean that they are outside God's blessing or they will not be blessed by God.
Take in mind this is my ideas, or as I like to say, "According to Saint Charles."
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