A New Year
The Lord said to Moses and Aaron in Egypt, ‘This month is to be for you the first month, the first month of your year.’
Exodus 12:1-2
The celebration of Passover and the Festival of Unleavened Bread is meant to launch the new year for God’s people. So we too are starting with this remembrance of how He has delivered us as we set our hope on Him to continue to deliver us because of how faithful and trustworthy He has always been. So we begin our journey with the remembrance of bondage, bitterness, and oppression. Just as the world began with evening and morning as one day, our new day, our new year, begins in darkness with a vigil feast in the night. It is a feast of expectation, a feast of faith that when the break of day comes, so will our breakthrough.
Among Thorns
The Lord appears as a flame of fire burning within a bush of thorns. He appears not to consume or destroy the thorns, but to reveal Himself as the God who sees, hears, and knows the people He has come in His love to rescue.
Unleavened Bread
The unleavened bread that God’s people eat year after year was originally made from dough they brought with them from Egypt. This bread is a reminder that what may have formed in oppression can become a sustaining and lasting food for you as you follow Him.
Take a Lamb
Take a lamb without blemish and keep it with you as part of the family… as a husband takes his wife, as your God has taken you to be His own, His beloved, enfolded one.
