Passover was to reorder the lives of those who observe
it. The calendar was changed to make the
month in which it fell the first of months.
It marked the day when God acted on behalf of His people to set them
free from their slave masters, the Egyptians.
It required action on the part of God's people to align themselves with
Him as well, they had to obey the commands regarding the animal, it had to be
in the household with them for three days prior to slaughter, and anyone can
see that makes the killing all the harder.
It had to be perfect, costly, and its blood smeared on the doorposts of
the homes. They had to eat as though
they were leaving in haste. What if
nothing happened that night? What if God
didn't do anything at all? Then, the
sounds of weeping and mourning from the Egyptians split the night. The first born in Egypt dying of what? What was going on over there, across from
Goshen? God was delivering His people,
making them His own.
Our Passover is the death of Christ, the perfect Lamb who
lived among us for a time as one of us.
His blood is our deliverance, the sign that we have identified with Him
in His life, death and resurrection. Our
obedience is to love Him and to trust completely in Him. We have been set free from the law of sin and
death that has reigned in this world from the day Adam and Eve took and ate not
from the tree of life but from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. That day we chose independence over
dependence on a loving creator in whose image we were made. In Christ, He, Himself, became as we are,
fully dependent on the Father, and subjected Himself to His own creation. We didn't know Him and we crucified the One
who had come to save us from sin and death because we hated His
righteousness. Today is not a day for
weeping and mourning, it is a day of celebration and joy. Jesus Christ is risen today, Alleluia!
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