Over the past couple of weeks a large proportion of us in the UK have had the humbling experience of finding that we are not key workers. Our work is not essential, not critical to national survival. While most of us are at home and many unable to work, doctors, delivery drivers, soldiers, stackers and other key workers are working flat out for us. The Day of Atonement must have felt similar in Old Testament times. In ancient Israel, once a year, for one dramatic day, everyone in the nation was furloughed. No-one could do any work. There was just one man working - the high priest. He had a lot of work to do. Check out Leviticus 16 . He had to wash very carefully and put on personal protective equipment (v4). He had to follow some very detailed regulations. He had to butcher several large animals - very heavy work. He had to do some extremely stressful stuff - entering the most dangerous 80 square metres on the planet. He did it all alone. Admittedly, there was the man who took the sc...
Living and preaching at the foot of the Cross