DON’T CLOG THE PATH
In Ancient Israel, six cities were founded as “cities of refuge.” The law of Moses declared that if a man killed another man — without malice or premeditation — he could flee to one of those cities and live there free without any harm coming to him until the death of the high priest. Then he was free to go to his home without fear. The rabbis have an interesting tradition about those cities of refuge. They say that, once each year, the roads leading to those cities were repaired and cleaned of any obstacles and stones so that the man fleeing for his life would have nothing that would hinder him on his way to the refuge. And the same is true with God’s “Spiritual Israel,” the church today. God still has it in his plan that there be a place of refuge for our mistakes, a place of hiding for our sins. Our “city of refuge” is Christ…
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