“Who Says I Need a Scapegoat?”
Have you ever heard the
word “scapegoat”? You probably have, usually in reference to some scandal or
something. I certainly have heard it many times. I knew that it meant someone
was bearing the guilt for another, but I never knew where the word came from,
until I was reading the Bible the other day, and BAM, there it was!
Leviticus 16:7-22 relays some instructions that
Okay, so assuming we all
have transgressions (some of us have more than others), and if we don’t have a
goat hanging around our back yards, what would this look like today, how would this
be accomplished?
When I was a kid, the neighbors goat ran down their driveway,
chased me down, I fell, and that goat ran right over me! Clearly it was trying
to kill me, so no love loss here to read about goat sacrifices! So I am
exaggerating, but this is my story! But back to the scapegoat, as I have been
reading Leviticus, I kept saying how glad I was that we no longer have to go
through all that to have our sins blotted out.
It is amazing what I get when I read the Bible, I encourage you to
read it daily, to know what it says so you can’t get duped into false
doctrines. One of my college classes is History, and I am learning about many
historical events that took place while people waved the Bible around to
justify their actions, and sadly, the scriptures were often taken out of
context by well-meaning Christians. I suggest you ask God to allow you to hear
HIS heartbeat as you read it. My pastor says almost every church service, “Read
it for yourselves, don’t take my word for it, YOU read it and study it!” I have
taken up his threat, I mean suggestion, and I have not regretted it one bit!
And thank God for the scapegoat.
