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Day 41, or February 10. Is that really fair? Our thoughts today are rooted in Leviticus

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chapter 24, verses 19 and 20. Anyone who injures their neighbour is to be injured in the same

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manner. Fracture for fracture, eye for eye, tooth for tooth. The one who has inflicted

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the injury must suffer the same injury. And now the big picture surrounding these verses.

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Leviticus contains so much detail about the offerings and feasts of the Jewish people

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that we must conclude that we have a fair God who wants us to know exactly what is expected

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of us. The apostle Paul tells us that all these regulations were to point us to Jesus.

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Galatians 3 verse 24 tells us, The law was our guardian until Christ came. It protected

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us until we could be made right with God through faith. All of these laws and regulations were

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fulfilled in Jesus, so that we are now free to live our lives to the full. Of course,

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when we do this, we inevitably keep the spirit of all these godly regulations.

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And now our action step for today. In Leviticus we read about the ancient eye-for-an-eye type

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of rough justice, which was centuries before its time. When Moses first told the children

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of Israel about this part of God's law, their jaws would have dropped in disbelief. They

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were used to wiping out a whole family for a personal injury. In fact, you will find

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this sort of reaction in the Bible. Here we have a glimpse of the mercy-loving heart of

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God. The cynic amongst us may agree with the ancient rabbi who said, That will simply produce

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a nation of blind people. I don't agree. It told the Jews, and you, and me, that our

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God is intrinsically fair. I know there are things that happen every day that question

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that. But I am convinced that the God of the Bible is always fair, and on judgment day

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no one will be able to say, That wasn't fair. Now that's a thought that bears reflecting

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on in these days of injustice and unfairness that's shown by people to other people all

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over the world. Our God's a fair God, and everyone will see it and experience it one

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day.