The Lord is awe-inspiring, fearsome, fascinating, intriguing, majestic, and full of splendor: breathtaking! Here is what I saw of him today and what came to my heart and mind in Exodus 13:8-10,
"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 this 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."
As the Lord told Moses, and in turn Moses told the Israelites, the Feast of Unleavened Bread was to be observed year after year at the appointed time in their calendar. The purpose of the feast was to be a reminder to them and the generations to come of how the Lord freed Israel from their bondage in Egypt to take possession of the land the Lord had promised the patriarchs. A special land, a land of their own to be a blessing from God and enable the nation to secure all God had for them.
This observation could not be more rich with symbolism for a much greater emancipation God would bring about in his unfathomable love of mankind. The day would come when God would make possible an exodus from mankind's bondage and slavery to sin through the sacrifice of his Son, Jesus Christ. All those who embrace him in faith are led from this bondage into the freedom of the children of God to embrace all the blessings God has for those who are his!
In Psalm 16:11 we read of the eternal pleasures that will be ours at the hand of God when we are delivered from this "bondage to decay and brought into the freedom and glory of the children of God" that Paul talks of in Romans 8:21.
I love the way Paul puts it when he speaks of the enslavement to sin of mankind and the emancipation that is ours, just as the Israelites emancipation was from slavery in Egypt, "Just as you used to offer yourselves as slaves to impurity and to ever-increasing wickedness, so now offer yourselves as slaves to righteousness leading to holiness. When you were slaves to sin, you were free from the control of righteousness. What benefit did you reap at that time from the things you are now ashamed of? Those things result in death! But now that you have been set free from sin and have become slaves of God, the benefit you reap leads to holiness, and the result is eternal life. For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord." Romans 6:19-23.
"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 this 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."
As the Lord told Moses, and in turn Moses told the Israelites, the Feast of Unleavened Bread was to be observed year after year at the appointed time in their calendar. The purpose of the feast was to be a reminder to them and the generations to come of how the Lord freed Israel from their bondage in Egypt to take possession of the land the Lord had promised the patriarchs. A special land, a land of their own to be a blessing from God and enable the nation to secure all God had for them.
This observation could not be more rich with symbolism for a much greater emancipation God would bring about in his unfathomable love of mankind. The day would come when God would make possible an exodus from mankind's bondage and slavery to sin through the sacrifice of his Son, Jesus Christ. All those who embrace him in faith are led from this bondage into the freedom of the children of God to embrace all the blessings God has for those who are his!
In Psalm 16:11 we read of the eternal pleasures that will be ours at the hand of God when we are delivered from this "bondage to decay and brought into the freedom and glory of the children of God" that Paul talks of in Romans 8:21.
I love the way Paul puts it when he speaks of the enslavement to sin of mankind and the emancipation that is ours, just as the Israelites emancipation was from slavery in Egypt, "Just as you used to offer yourselves as slaves to impurity and to ever-increasing wickedness, so now offer yourselves as slaves to righteousness leading to holiness. When you were slaves to sin, you were free from the control of righteousness. What benefit did you reap at that time from the things you are now ashamed of? Those things result in death! But now that you have been set free from sin and have become slaves of God, the benefit you reap leads to holiness, and the result is eternal life. For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord." Romans 6:19-23.
Here is something to really celebrate!
Anything of the Lord capture your heart from Scripture today? Share what moved you about him from your Bible reading today. I'd love to hear from you!
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Anything of the Lord capture your heart from Scripture today? Share what moved you about him from your Bible reading today. I'd love to hear from you!
If you have someone you would like to receive these ruminations, send me their email address. I'm happy to add them to the list. If you are receiving this and would like to be removed from the list, just reply and let me know. A blog with all my posts can be found here: http://worshipfortoday.blogspot.com/
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