(I don't know why there is no epistle.)
The Passover feast eaten in Egypt would certainly have been
a solemn and expectant one. Was the Lord
truly going to strike down the first born of Egypt in one night? Think of a world with no electric lights, so
much less ambient noise we can hardly imagine it, and the realization in every
household that the first born males were dying.
The wailing and weeping would be heard everywhere and yet this one group
of slaves living in Goshen were simply eating a meal together of roasted
lamb. They had to so some ritual acts
with the blood of that lamb, put the blood on the lintels and doorposts of
their houses, but other than that they were just having a meal. The rest of the world was melting down and
these people, the slaves, were quietly dining.
The Lord asked very little of them in the way of obedience and faith,
just add that little ritual to your meal, and yet that little act of obedience
made all the difference in the world.
All who believe in Jesus' Name, meaning, the Lord saves, are
given the right to become children of God, born of God. How can that be possible that I don't have to
do anything in order to become a child of God?
Even the faith to believe is a gift.
We, believers, will see a time like unto this Passover in Egypt, when we
will live and others will die for the simple reason they didn't believe in
Jesus' Name. It is an amazing thing to
believe that Jesus came down into darkness, opened my eyes, let me see. He who existed from eternity took on humanity
and lived among us as one of us in order that rebels might be turned into
worshippers as AW Tozer wrote. We have
seen that God is indeed merciful and gracious and now we know the extent of
that mercy and grace is everlasting, the gift that indeed keeps on giving.
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