Post by Woody Williams on Jan 21, 2008 11:26:56 GMT -5
Text for the Day -- Exodus 12:1-7, 13
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The LORD said to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt: This month
shall mark for you the beginning of months; it shall be the first
month of the year for you. Tell the whole congregation of Israel that
on the tenth of this month they are to take a lamb for each family, a
lamb for each household. If a household is too small for a whole
lamb, it shall join its closest neighbour in obtaining one; the lamb
shall be divided in proportion to the number of people who eat of it.
Your lamb shall be without blemish, a year-old male; you may take it
from the sheep or from the goats. You shall keep it until the
fourteenth day of this month; then the whole assembled congregation
of Israel shall slaughter it at twilight. They shall take some of the
blood and put it on the two doorposts and the lintel of the houses in
which they eat it. The blood shall be a sign for you on the houses
where you live: when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and no
plague shall destroy you when I strike the land of Egypt.
Devotional
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This was the night Israel would remember forever. The night of the
Passover was a defining moment for Israel. A lamb was killed and its
blood was put over the door post of each Israelite home. The angel of
death "passed over" these homes so that the Hebrew children would be
saved. The journey of freedom would now begin to the promised land.
Christ is likened to that passover lamb and to other images of the
lamb in the Old Testament. Christ is our lamb of redemption, a symbol
of our freedom from sin and oppression. In Him the new journey begins
and ends.
Prayer
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Help me to walk in the way of the Lamb, O Lord, humbly and happily in
your redeeming love. Amen
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The LORD said to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt: This month
shall mark for you the beginning of months; it shall be the first
month of the year for you. Tell the whole congregation of Israel that
on the tenth of this month they are to take a lamb for each family, a
lamb for each household. If a household is too small for a whole
lamb, it shall join its closest neighbour in obtaining one; the lamb
shall be divided in proportion to the number of people who eat of it.
Your lamb shall be without blemish, a year-old male; you may take it
from the sheep or from the goats. You shall keep it until the
fourteenth day of this month; then the whole assembled congregation
of Israel shall slaughter it at twilight. They shall take some of the
blood and put it on the two doorposts and the lintel of the houses in
which they eat it. The blood shall be a sign for you on the houses
where you live: when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and no
plague shall destroy you when I strike the land of Egypt.
Devotional
----------
This was the night Israel would remember forever. The night of the
Passover was a defining moment for Israel. A lamb was killed and its
blood was put over the door post of each Israelite home. The angel of
death "passed over" these homes so that the Hebrew children would be
saved. The journey of freedom would now begin to the promised land.
Christ is likened to that passover lamb and to other images of the
lamb in the Old Testament. Christ is our lamb of redemption, a symbol
of our freedom from sin and oppression. In Him the new journey begins
and ends.
Prayer
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Help me to walk in the way of the Lamb, O Lord, humbly and happily in
your redeeming love. Amen