Today's passage marks the first in the ongoing struggle between the nation of Israel and the Lord. While God had selected this people to emerge from Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob as His very own, their hearts often strayed from God's intentions. Their negligence to follow the covenant God had set before them (most clearly through the Ten Commandments of Exodus 20) ultimately leads to their wandering in the desert for 40 years, leaving the generation who had departed from Egypt unable to enter the Promised Land.
Several highlights from today's packed reading include:
1) The people's quickness to pursue idolatrous behavior. We have a tendency to worship what we can see, trusting in it, instead of what is unseen. God's promises are all true in Christ, but we often struggle to grasp them, internalize them, and center our lives around them. Just after Moses had left to seek God on Mount Sinai, the people called to Aaron and sought a visible god to bring them comfort. Their fashioning of this god flew in the face of the first Commandment and stoked the righteous jealousy of the Living God. The Israelites' national inability to place God first in everything will play out over many centuries, leading them to great defeat and ultimately exile.
The Israelites' actions and attitudes have infiltrated culture for centuries. A. W. Tozer begins his _Knowledge of the Holy_ with the following words:
"What comes into our minds when we think about God is the most important thing about us.... The history of mankind will probably show that no people has ever risen above its religion, and man’s spiritual history will positively demonstrate that no religion has ever been greater than its idea of God. Worship is pure or base as the worshiper entertains high or low thoughts of God."
2) Aaron's poor leadership. While the burdens of any leadership are heavy, the burdens of spiritual leadership are palpably weighty. As priests and prophets, Moses and Aaron had the responsibility to guide the people away from their hearts' desires to seek after the Living God. Yet, in his moment of weakness in Exodus 32, Aaron gives into the clamoring people, offering to build them an idol from their gold jewelry. His actions indicated that he was more concerned about his position in front of the people and their short-term, sinful needs than in what God had declared. Later, with Moses, he did not speak truthfully about his involvement in the sin. Indeed, he sounds much like Adam did upon God's encountering him in the Garden. We must not choose to enable others in sin, as the consequences are so great.
3) Holy anger from God and Moses. Upon discovering the Israelites' sin, both God and Moses display holy or righteous anger. Typically, we become angry because of another person's inability to meet our needs; this anger may lead to bitterness or resentment and leads us away from God. If we become angry over injustice or the breaking of God's law, we do not sin and instead prevent others from sin. Sin is much more costly than we wish to acknowledge. As you may realize from a casual scan of the media, our culture laughs at sin.
Without recognition of the value and honor of God's presence, God and Moses's reactions may appear harsh. Yet, the Israelites had become bound under the covenant and had betrayed the God Who had given them life and brought them out of slavery. Only upon Moses's pleading on behalf of the people did God relent from his planned destruction. Still, Moses calls forth the Levites, who then kill those who had besmirched the covenant.
4) Renewing of the covenant. God initially threatened to remove His Presence from the Israelites, leaving them to their own devices to seek the Promised Land. Moses's seeking after God brought about a renewing of the covenant, which centered around God's Presence returning to the Israelites' camp. The Israelites could clearly see God's Presence with Moses in the "tent of meeting" and on the mountain, and Moses even entreated God to show him His glory. Moses spoke to God as a friend, yet he needed to veil his face in order to show the fleeting glory (2 Corinthians 3:13). Just like Moses, we may approach God as a friend: "Therefore, since we have a great high priest who has gone through the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold firmly to the faith we profess. For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but we have one who has been tempted in every way, just as we are—yet was without sin. Let us then approach the throne of grace with confidence, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help us in our time of need."
Sunday, January 31, 2010
Saturday, January 30, 2010
January 30
Read Exodus 29-31 The most segregated hour of the week is Sunday morning at 11:00.
Exodus 30:15 The rich are not to give more than a half shekel and the poor are not to give less when you make the offering to the Lord to atone for your lives.
Is this a bribe to God to atone for our sins? You put the money in the offering plate and you can get a free “Out of Hell” card? What is going on?
From the Life Application Bible: The atonement money was like a census tax. It continued the principle that all the people belonged to God and therefore needed to be redeemed by a sacrifice. Whenever a census took place, everyone, both rich and poor, was required to pay a ransom. God does not discriminate between people (see Acts 10:34; Galatians 3:28). All of us need mercy and forgiveness because of our sinful thoughts and actions. There is no way the rich person can buy off God, and no way the poor can avoid paying. God’s demand is that all of us come humbly before him to be forgiven and brought into his family.
We will see in future readings that when it comes to sacrifices and offerings God does have a sliding scale for rich and poor. Yet on this tax, the ground is equal among all peoples.
We live in days of class and race envy. The idea of segregating people according to certain characteristics is against the law but it is still very evident in our culture. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. said in the 60’s that Sunday morning at 11:00 is still the most segregated hour of the week. It is now 40 years later and tomorrow only 8% of the churches in the USA will be blended.
If God regards each and every person as equal, how can we make class, race or social distinctions? There is no place for prejudice or discrimination in the family of God.
Exodus 30:15 The rich are not to give more than a half shekel and the poor are not to give less when you make the offering to the Lord to atone for your lives.
Is this a bribe to God to atone for our sins? You put the money in the offering plate and you can get a free “Out of Hell” card? What is going on?
From the Life Application Bible: The atonement money was like a census tax. It continued the principle that all the people belonged to God and therefore needed to be redeemed by a sacrifice. Whenever a census took place, everyone, both rich and poor, was required to pay a ransom. God does not discriminate between people (see Acts 10:34; Galatians 3:28). All of us need mercy and forgiveness because of our sinful thoughts and actions. There is no way the rich person can buy off God, and no way the poor can avoid paying. God’s demand is that all of us come humbly before him to be forgiven and brought into his family.
We will see in future readings that when it comes to sacrifices and offerings God does have a sliding scale for rich and poor. Yet on this tax, the ground is equal among all peoples.
We live in days of class and race envy. The idea of segregating people according to certain characteristics is against the law but it is still very evident in our culture. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. said in the 60’s that Sunday morning at 11:00 is still the most segregated hour of the week. It is now 40 years later and tomorrow only 8% of the churches in the USA will be blended.
If God regards each and every person as equal, how can we make class, race or social distinctions? There is no place for prejudice or discrimination in the family of God.
Friday, January 29, 2010
January 29
Accountability day: send me a quick email informing me of where you are in the journey. This is a great time to make sure you are up to date. The next month will be filled with a lot of details about Jewish law and ceremony. This is usually the time that people fall behind. It is going to be a freezing cold weekend so it will be a great time to catch up.
Read Exodus 25-28 God’s Home
We all need a home to live in. In a special way God has a home in heaven and he wanted an exact copy of that built on earth. There are differing views if there is a temple in heaven ... Rev 11:19 seems to indicate that there is. But what is agreed on is that everything in this plan for the earthly temple has a purpose. Everything in the temple would point to the sacrifice that Messiah would make 1400 years later. That is why we have the words ... “according to the pattern I showed you on the mountain.”
The amazing truth about this home for God is that it is to be built on real estate on earth. God wanted to move to the hood. He wants to be close to his people.
Here is the problem I have as I read these verses... I am not a detail person. I do not do wallpaper anymore, I detestation 1000 piece puzzles, and I dislike reading instructions yet God has given highly detailed blueprints for his house. How many times does God tell Moses to build his sanctuary exactly as instructed? There is no independent contracting on this job.
Syncretism is not allowed in this relationship with God. Syncretism is the combination or fusion of differing beliefs. We can’t say to God, I want to have this part of the temple, but I also want a video room or a game parlor for my entertainment. They had to follow God’s precise detail in this construction of this home. The same is true today .... believe in the God who is revealed not in the God you feel.
If you would like a quick tour of what the tabernacle looked like, here is a 3D animated view of it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fs5QtNwtr7o&NR=1
Read Exodus 25-28 God’s Home
We all need a home to live in. In a special way God has a home in heaven and he wanted an exact copy of that built on earth. There are differing views if there is a temple in heaven ... Rev 11:19 seems to indicate that there is. But what is agreed on is that everything in this plan for the earthly temple has a purpose. Everything in the temple would point to the sacrifice that Messiah would make 1400 years later. That is why we have the words ... “according to the pattern I showed you on the mountain.”
The amazing truth about this home for God is that it is to be built on real estate on earth. God wanted to move to the hood. He wants to be close to his people.
Here is the problem I have as I read these verses... I am not a detail person. I do not do wallpaper anymore, I detestation 1000 piece puzzles, and I dislike reading instructions yet God has given highly detailed blueprints for his house. How many times does God tell Moses to build his sanctuary exactly as instructed? There is no independent contracting on this job.
Syncretism is not allowed in this relationship with God. Syncretism is the combination or fusion of differing beliefs. We can’t say to God, I want to have this part of the temple, but I also want a video room or a game parlor for my entertainment. They had to follow God’s precise detail in this construction of this home. The same is true today .... believe in the God who is revealed not in the God you feel.
If you would like a quick tour of what the tabernacle looked like, here is a 3D animated view of it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fs5QtNwtr7o&NR=1
Thursday, January 28, 2010
January 28
Read Exodus 19-24 The Law
The purpose of the Law is to Provide and Protect. It provides us with a glimpse of the nature of God. We cannot know the heart of God unless he reveals it to us. We see his holiness, his character and his will. The law shows us what sin is and that we can never be holy enough to make it to heaven on our good works. It teaches us that we need a Savior. It is like a medical thermometer, it shows us that we are sick and in need of a doctor.
The laws provides the best life possible. When we live by the principles of the law we will find that life makes sense. Did you see the phrase... I will give you a full life span. The 10 commandments give us the best possible life in a fallen world.
The law protects us from the dead ends of life. If you want to ship wreck your life, disobey the law of God. I can fill Boyle stadium in Stamford, with people who have crashed their lives by disobeying the 10 Commandments but I have never, ever heard someone say, “I lived by the 10 Commandments and God has ruined my life.”
An illustration from the Book The Country of the Pointed Firs.
Sara Jewett describes a woman writer on the pathway leading to the home of a retired sea captain named Elijah Tilley. On the way, the woman notes a number of wooden stakes randomly scattered about the property, with no discernible order. Each is painted white and trimmed in yellow, like the captains house. Curious, she asks Captain Tilley what they mean. When he first plowed the ground, he says, his plow snagged on many large rocks just beneath the surface. So he set out the stakes where the rocks lay in order to avoid them in the future. In a sense, this is what God has done with the 10 commandments. He said “These are the trouble spots in life. Avoid them and you won’t snag your plow.”
Let me make it very clear.. people were never saved by keeping the 620 laws in the OT. God will never say, “Wow, you really tried hard to live a good life and keep my commandments, so when you die I will invite you into heaven.” Because God is holy we have to be perfect to make it to heaven. There cannot be any sin in heaven, so if you are banking on “The Good Life” plan to make it to heaven, it’s time to abandon that plan. Our only hope is in the grace, mercy and forgiveness found in Jesus. Jesus is the Lamb of God slain to provide us with a ticket to heaven.
Is the Law still in effect today? There are three levels to the Law: Moral law, Civil law and Ceremonial law.
1. Moral Law
10 Commandments
Still in effect today but the day of rest has been changed to Sunday for the church because of Jesus’ resurrection.
2. Civil Law
Not in effect today. These laws were part of the Theocracy. A Theocracy is a government in which God is the head. We live in a democracy where people argue their position and the voters decide. The principles of the civil law have been the foundation of 2000 years of the development of Western civilization
3. Ceremonial Law
Not in effect today. God told Peter he was changing the rules of the game in the New Testament for the church. You can eat shrimp scampi and pork tonight for dinner.
The purpose of the Law is to Provide and Protect. It provides us with a glimpse of the nature of God. We cannot know the heart of God unless he reveals it to us. We see his holiness, his character and his will. The law shows us what sin is and that we can never be holy enough to make it to heaven on our good works. It teaches us that we need a Savior. It is like a medical thermometer, it shows us that we are sick and in need of a doctor.
The laws provides the best life possible. When we live by the principles of the law we will find that life makes sense. Did you see the phrase... I will give you a full life span. The 10 commandments give us the best possible life in a fallen world.
The law protects us from the dead ends of life. If you want to ship wreck your life, disobey the law of God. I can fill Boyle stadium in Stamford, with people who have crashed their lives by disobeying the 10 Commandments but I have never, ever heard someone say, “I lived by the 10 Commandments and God has ruined my life.”
An illustration from the Book The Country of the Pointed Firs.
Sara Jewett describes a woman writer on the pathway leading to the home of a retired sea captain named Elijah Tilley. On the way, the woman notes a number of wooden stakes randomly scattered about the property, with no discernible order. Each is painted white and trimmed in yellow, like the captains house. Curious, she asks Captain Tilley what they mean. When he first plowed the ground, he says, his plow snagged on many large rocks just beneath the surface. So he set out the stakes where the rocks lay in order to avoid them in the future. In a sense, this is what God has done with the 10 commandments. He said “These are the trouble spots in life. Avoid them and you won’t snag your plow.”
Let me make it very clear.. people were never saved by keeping the 620 laws in the OT. God will never say, “Wow, you really tried hard to live a good life and keep my commandments, so when you die I will invite you into heaven.” Because God is holy we have to be perfect to make it to heaven. There cannot be any sin in heaven, so if you are banking on “The Good Life” plan to make it to heaven, it’s time to abandon that plan. Our only hope is in the grace, mercy and forgiveness found in Jesus. Jesus is the Lamb of God slain to provide us with a ticket to heaven.
Is the Law still in effect today? There are three levels to the Law: Moral law, Civil law and Ceremonial law.
1. Moral Law
10 Commandments
Still in effect today but the day of rest has been changed to Sunday for the church because of Jesus’ resurrection.
2. Civil Law
Not in effect today. These laws were part of the Theocracy. A Theocracy is a government in which God is the head. We live in a democracy where people argue their position and the voters decide. The principles of the civil law have been the foundation of 2000 years of the development of Western civilization
3. Ceremonial Law
Not in effect today. God told Peter he was changing the rules of the game in the New Testament for the church. You can eat shrimp scampi and pork tonight for dinner.
Wednesday, January 27, 2010
January 27
The power of prayer Exodus 16-18
In the battle against the Amalekites we are taught some very important lessons. These lessons mean the difference between living a victorious life, or living a defeated one. Exodus 17 records a battle in which Joshua is fighting in the valley below and Moses is praying on the mountain above. Which is more important for the victory? Both are necessary but without the prayer there will be no victory.
This battle started with the people of God being attacked. “The Amalekites came and attacked.” The attacks in life will occur daily when we desire to walk out of slavery into freedom. Satan doesn’t need to attack someone in slavery. We will see in our reading this year, that we are locked into a fierce cosmic spiritual battle. The question isn’t, “will you be attacked?” The question is, “when you are attacked, what will you do?”
One lesson here is to both fight and pray. We need to be Joshua fighting in the valley at times. But even as we are locked in the valley fight, our ultimate weapon is prayer on the mountain tops. Whenever Moses’ hands were lowered they started losing the battle in the valley. If we want to experience a victory in the valley it will take prayer on the mountain top. There are no exceptions to this rule.
Notice the importance of having a prayer partner. When Moses hands were lowered the battle turned against them. So Aaron and Hur held his hands up. This lesson points out the critical nature of having a prayer team surrounding you. For my first years of ministry I had the support of several prayer warriors. One of them was Grammy Taylor. She was my Moses in the mountain praying for me. Over the years various senior citizens have been part of my prayer team.
The final lesson is the impossible odds that the Israelites faced in this battle. If this battle were to be on the Las Vegas points spread, the Amalekites would have had a 10 touchdown advantage over the Israelites. On paper they had years, decades and even centuries of fight experience. The Israelites were slaves who still had the scars of the shackles on them. Plus the top quality of the Israelites was their complaining. They were experts at complaining, which makes for a terrible army. The Amalekites had weapons while the Israelites had garden tools. Everyone knew the outcome of this battle even before it started. But nothing is impossible with God, especially when you have mountain top prayer. And in the end the Israelites routed their enemies.
3 Lessons from this reading:
1. Pray at the start, pray in the middle and pray at the end of every battle.
2. Have a prayer teammates supporting you. Ask two people to be part of your prayer team.
3. There are no hopeless situations in life. There are only people who have become hopeless because they don’t believe in the promises of God. With our God ... all things are possible.
In the battle against the Amalekites we are taught some very important lessons. These lessons mean the difference between living a victorious life, or living a defeated one. Exodus 17 records a battle in which Joshua is fighting in the valley below and Moses is praying on the mountain above. Which is more important for the victory? Both are necessary but without the prayer there will be no victory.
This battle started with the people of God being attacked. “The Amalekites came and attacked.” The attacks in life will occur daily when we desire to walk out of slavery into freedom. Satan doesn’t need to attack someone in slavery. We will see in our reading this year, that we are locked into a fierce cosmic spiritual battle. The question isn’t, “will you be attacked?” The question is, “when you are attacked, what will you do?”
One lesson here is to both fight and pray. We need to be Joshua fighting in the valley at times. But even as we are locked in the valley fight, our ultimate weapon is prayer on the mountain tops. Whenever Moses’ hands were lowered they started losing the battle in the valley. If we want to experience a victory in the valley it will take prayer on the mountain top. There are no exceptions to this rule.
Notice the importance of having a prayer partner. When Moses hands were lowered the battle turned against them. So Aaron and Hur held his hands up. This lesson points out the critical nature of having a prayer team surrounding you. For my first years of ministry I had the support of several prayer warriors. One of them was Grammy Taylor. She was my Moses in the mountain praying for me. Over the years various senior citizens have been part of my prayer team.
The final lesson is the impossible odds that the Israelites faced in this battle. If this battle were to be on the Las Vegas points spread, the Amalekites would have had a 10 touchdown advantage over the Israelites. On paper they had years, decades and even centuries of fight experience. The Israelites were slaves who still had the scars of the shackles on them. Plus the top quality of the Israelites was their complaining. They were experts at complaining, which makes for a terrible army. The Amalekites had weapons while the Israelites had garden tools. Everyone knew the outcome of this battle even before it started. But nothing is impossible with God, especially when you have mountain top prayer. And in the end the Israelites routed their enemies.
3 Lessons from this reading:
1. Pray at the start, pray in the middle and pray at the end of every battle.
2. Have a prayer teammates supporting you. Ask two people to be part of your prayer team.
3. There are no hopeless situations in life. There are only people who have become hopeless because they don’t believe in the promises of God. With our God ... all things are possible.
Tuesday, January 26, 2010
January 26
Exodus 13:17-15:21
Parting the Red Sea
This event is so famous that even people who have never read the Bible or stepped foot into a church know about it. God parts the Red Sea, allowing the Israelites to safely escape the Egyptians. I have heard and/or read this story more times than I can count. When I was reading it today, one thought stuck out in my mind:
People are incredibly forgetful and God is incredibly faithful.
The Israelites saw God's mighty power in Egypt, demonstrated by the plagues. With the Lord's help, Moses summoned plagues that could not be replicated or explained by Pharaoh's most skilled magicians. They witnessed Pharaoh's hard heart break down until he willingly let them all go. After they left, they were blessed enough to see the Lord in the form of a cloud by day and fire at night to guide their every move. It was abundantly obvious that a powerful, loving God was with them at all times.
But as I said before, people are forgetful.
The first sign of trouble was the approaching Egyptian army. The Israelites were trapped and frightened. Forgetting all that God had already done for them, they fell into despair and were convinced they were going to die. They told Moses it would have been better to stay in Egypt as slaves than to die in the desert.
Despite how forgetful people are, God never stops being faithful. God's faithfulness does not depend on our ability to remember. He delivered his people from their enemies in a way that only He could accomplish. No one else could have separated the waters of the Red Sea, making a path of dry ground between two enormous walls of water.
This is good news because here we are, thousands of years later and still just as forgetful as ever. We witness countless times where God delivers us from danger, and we still worry and fret when the first sign of trouble comes along. It would save all of us a whole lot of stress and worry if we focused on who God is: loving, powerful, and faithful. Pray that the next time you are struggling, that God will remind you of who is His and all He can accomplish. God is bigger than anything the world can throw at us and He loves us more than we could ever comprehend. Remembering this will enable us to stop worrying and start trusting in our faithful God, turning our doubt and despair into peace and joy!
Parting the Red Sea
This event is so famous that even people who have never read the Bible or stepped foot into a church know about it. God parts the Red Sea, allowing the Israelites to safely escape the Egyptians. I have heard and/or read this story more times than I can count. When I was reading it today, one thought stuck out in my mind:
People are incredibly forgetful and God is incredibly faithful.
The Israelites saw God's mighty power in Egypt, demonstrated by the plagues. With the Lord's help, Moses summoned plagues that could not be replicated or explained by Pharaoh's most skilled magicians. They witnessed Pharaoh's hard heart break down until he willingly let them all go. After they left, they were blessed enough to see the Lord in the form of a cloud by day and fire at night to guide their every move. It was abundantly obvious that a powerful, loving God was with them at all times.
But as I said before, people are forgetful.
The first sign of trouble was the approaching Egyptian army. The Israelites were trapped and frightened. Forgetting all that God had already done for them, they fell into despair and were convinced they were going to die. They told Moses it would have been better to stay in Egypt as slaves than to die in the desert.
Despite how forgetful people are, God never stops being faithful. God's faithfulness does not depend on our ability to remember. He delivered his people from their enemies in a way that only He could accomplish. No one else could have separated the waters of the Red Sea, making a path of dry ground between two enormous walls of water.
This is good news because here we are, thousands of years later and still just as forgetful as ever. We witness countless times where God delivers us from danger, and we still worry and fret when the first sign of trouble comes along. It would save all of us a whole lot of stress and worry if we focused on who God is: loving, powerful, and faithful. Pray that the next time you are struggling, that God will remind you of who is His and all He can accomplish. God is bigger than anything the world can throw at us and He loves us more than we could ever comprehend. Remembering this will enable us to stop worrying and start trusting in our faithful God, turning our doubt and despair into peace and joy!
Monday, January 25, 2010
January 25: Exodus 12-13:16
God gives some detailed instructions to the Israelites what are they to do on the night of the final and worst of the plagues so that their firstborn would be spared death. God also gives instruction of how the Passover holiday and the Feast of the Unleavened Bread are to be celebrated going forward by the Israelites. Why was God into these details? He established the Passover traditions so that the people would remember. So that they would remember the great scheme of things: that their God delivered them from bondage in Egypt: “On that day tell your son, 'I do this because of what the LORD did for me when I came out of Egypt.' This observance will be for you like a sign on your hand and a reminder on your forehead that the law of the LORD is to be on your lips. For the LORD brought you out of Egypt with his mighty hand. You must keep this ordinance at the appointed time year after year.” (Exodus 13:8-10)
But we could also see in the Passover event a message which is prophetic in nature. God is teaching people about His deliverance according to His grace through a sacrifice. God saved every firstborn of the Hebrews that night because of His grace, and as a price he requested a symbolic sacrifice of a slain lamb from the Hebrews. Fast forward in history, Jesus himself would become the ultimate sacrifice for salvation according to God’s grace: this salvation is offered to all people and is salvation from all sin. Every sin had to be paid so that God and human could be reconciled. A price is giving something of value to you, something you hold dear. God paid the price for us. What more valuable to God than His Son, and what other price could be enough for every sin of every human being? Because He was sacrificed, Christ is being called the Lamb of God: "Look, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!” (John 1:29)
When the Israelites marked their doors with the blood of the Passover lamb, it was an expression of their faith showing that they believe in God’s promise that He would deliver them from Egypt, which God did do. Today, when we accept the sacrifice of Christ on the cross and believe in His resurrection, we also act in faith and receive salvation according to God’s grace from our every sin and we become reconciled with God.
Like the Israelites we too should express our faith and trust in God: through the way we respond to Him, the way we live and the way we love.
What is God speaking to you today?
But we could also see in the Passover event a message which is prophetic in nature. God is teaching people about His deliverance according to His grace through a sacrifice. God saved every firstborn of the Hebrews that night because of His grace, and as a price he requested a symbolic sacrifice of a slain lamb from the Hebrews. Fast forward in history, Jesus himself would become the ultimate sacrifice for salvation according to God’s grace: this salvation is offered to all people and is salvation from all sin. Every sin had to be paid so that God and human could be reconciled. A price is giving something of value to you, something you hold dear. God paid the price for us. What more valuable to God than His Son, and what other price could be enough for every sin of every human being? Because He was sacrificed, Christ is being called the Lamb of God: "Look, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!” (John 1:29)
When the Israelites marked their doors with the blood of the Passover lamb, it was an expression of their faith showing that they believe in God’s promise that He would deliver them from Egypt, which God did do. Today, when we accept the sacrifice of Christ on the cross and believe in His resurrection, we also act in faith and receive salvation according to God’s grace from our every sin and we become reconciled with God.
Like the Israelites we too should express our faith and trust in God: through the way we respond to Him, the way we live and the way we love.
What is God speaking to you today?
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