August 30 – Exodus 12:14-20
August 30 – Exodus 12:14-20
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Exodus 12:14-20
14 “This
day shall be for you a memorial day, and you shall keep it as a feast to
the Lord; throughout your generations, as a statute forever, you
shall keep it as a feast. 15 Seven
days you shall eat unleavened bread. On the first day you shall remove leaven
out of your houses, for if anyone eats what is leavened, from the first day
until the seventh day, that person shall be cut off from Israel. 16 On the first day you shall hold
a holy assembly, and on the seventh day a holy assembly. No work shall be
done on those days. But what everyone needs to eat, that alone may be prepared
by you. 17 And you shall
observe the Feast of Unleavened Bread, for on this very day I brought
your hosts out of the land of Egypt. Therefore you shall observe this day,
throughout your generations, as a statute forever. 18 In the first month, from the fourteenth
day of the month at evening, you shall eat unleavened bread until the
twenty-first day of the month at evening. 19 For
seven days no leaven is to be found in your houses. If anyone eats what is
leavened, that person will be cut off from the congregation of
Israel, whether he is a sojourner or a native of the land. 20 You shall eat nothing leavened; in all
your dwelling places you shall eat unleavened bread.”
God gives what seems like to us to be very
strange instructions about not having anything leaven in the home for seven
days and eating nothing leavened during this time. He even says twice that if anyone eats anything
leavened, they will be cut off from the congregation of Israel. Those are very strong words, but obviously
God had his reasons.
Why do you think God was so serious in His instructions?
This was to be a memorial for the coming
generations. What do you do to remember and
thank God for helping you escape from the clutches of Satan and sin?
Heavenly Father, we don’t have to understand
everything You do or all the instructions You give us to be obedient. I know You were trying to show the people how
very serious of a situation obedience is and continues to be today. I can’t imagine how difficult it was to
corral that many people for forty years through the wilderness and obedience
had to be an important factor in keeping them moving in the direction You had
for them. We see soon how easy they
forgot Your instructions. I too, forget
You way too often. I forget Your
instructions, I forget to thank You, I forget to praise You. Help me be better at loving You and showing
my love for You to You, but also to those around so they can begin to see what
a loving and gracious God You are. You
are gracious because You knew how difficult we would be and still chose to
create us. Thank You for loving us so
deeply. Thank You for putting up with me,
Father, because daily I am unlovable.
Help me reflect You better. On my
good days and especially my bad days, I should be a reflection of You. Forgive me the many times I fail You. Help me to love those who are hurting around
me and not just see their sin as sin.
Help me see their sin and actions as a cry for help, prayer and love,
rather than criticism, judgment, and correction. Help me be You to those around me.
In Jesus’ name.
Amen!
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