God's Mercy on Display in the Flour Offering

And if he be not able to bring a lamb, then he shall bring for his trespass, which he hath committed, two turtledoves, or two young pigeons, unto the LORD; one for a sin offering, and the other for a burnt offering.
But if he be not able to bring two turtledoves, or two young pigeons, then he that sinned shall bring for his offering the tenth part of an ephah of fine flour for a sin offering; 

Leviticus 5:7,11

"Christ died for the most worthless, for the veriest outcast. 

Q: Who can gaze on that picture without having his heart filled with love for such a compassionate Redeemer? 

--Again he views a picture of the destitute sinner, longing to be free

from sin; 

--and beholding his wealthy brethren pass with their lambs for sin-offerings, the poor ones with their pigeons and doves, he sinks back into despondency, for he has no living thing to offer. 

--Then the light of hope springs into his face as one tells him, "Only a handful of flour will answer." 

And as the sinner watches the priest offer the crushed wheat as an emblem of the blessed body to be broken for him, and hears him say, "Thy sin is forgiven," his heart leaps for joy, as did the heart of the poor man by the pool of Siloam, who had no one to help him, when the blessed Master told him to take up his bed and walk." 

Stephen Haskell