Leviticus 21-22

“Say to Aaron: ‘For the generations to come none of your descendants who has a defect may come near to offer the food of his God’” (21:17). “Defects” – physical marks of imperfections, disease, or death – were unacceptable in the presence of the holy and perfect God. No man who was “blind or lame, disfigured or deformed ... with a crippled foot or hand” or visible sores could approach the altar. But Jesus, full of cleansing power, touched those who were hurting and sick and made them whole.

“I am the Lord, who makes them holy.’” (21:18-23). In Christ, no matter our background or what we have done, we become “holy and blameless” in God’s sight (Ephesians 1:4).