Passover Memories

The exiles observed the Passover on the fourteenth of the first month. (Ezra 6:19)

When a Passover is celebrated, God’s protection and deliverance and sustenance and provision is remembered. In this passage, the ones who had been challenged by lesser authority saw the fruition of the blessing of God. God had ordained that His people remember His Passover. Throughout the Old Testament, God’s people had been challenged in their belief. Would they trust God or turn to idolatry? Sadly, idolatry ruled in their hearts. Occasionally they would remember Him. This is one of those times. They could not have prevailed without Him. This is truth to me today. I could not have endured in this journey without the mercy of God. He passed over me when He could have judged me. He gave me life when I could have been given death. The history of the Passover lamb has always pointed to the Lamb of God in the heritage of God’s people. The children of the Lord are always in exile and alien sojourners in this world of sin. We do not belong here. We yearn to be free to worship the Lord. And when God makes that possible, we must remember the Lamb. How He passed over us…when death was so near… Hallelujah! There truly is life in the blood of the Lamb!