They shall teach my people the difference between the holy and the common, and show them how to distinguish between the unclean and the clean. (Ezekiel 44:23) Now that we’ve arrived into the world of relativity, its more important than ever to distinguish between the holy and the common in our lives. The reason being that when the lines between holy and common begin to blur, nothing, and I mean nothing, carries the significant importance required to matter in people’s lives. As a result of this, one cannot debase or decry outrageous social injustice, failures of morality, and unabashed refusal of accountability in people. In this passage God charges the priesthood to teach His people and to show His people the difference. Now, according to the Bible, all followers of Christ are part of the royal priesthood and therefore this charge from God is to us. We are charged to show people and teach people between holy and common. Likewise, we are to show and teach people between clean and unclean. It is a pretty steep charge. In fact, it is a charge that demands that we live as exemplars to know knowing what is holy and not and distinguishing from clean and unclean and making that a part of our life every single day. Its so easy for us to get wrapped up, lost and befuddled by relativity that we don’t live what we say we teach. We treat the common things in life as holy and conversely, we treat the holy things in life as they are just mere banality in the peripheral of our lives. Perhaps this week, we need to really reflect on what we distinguished and treated as holy; and whether those things considered holy in our lives just common? Lets reevaluate the holy in our lives and show others how to do the same.
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