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Daily Devotionals
Day by Day Devotional - Year 1 of 5
Exodus 12:40 to Exodus 13:10
God makes everything begin from the day of redemption (Exodus 12:2; 1 Kings 6:1). He institutes the passover as a perpetual statute. The thought of the Enemy with regard to the Lamb is "that his name be no more remembered" (Jeremiah 11:19). But God, for whom the work of His Son has such great worth, takes care to see that the memory of it is perpetuated. "It is a night to be much observed" He proclaims (v. 42), and further on "remember this day" (v. 3). In the institution of the memorial Supper in the place of the passover, the Lord Jesus asked His own to do this in remembrance of Himself (1 Corinthians 11:24-25). Have you responded to this desire of the Lord?
In ch. 13 the LORD declares His rights over the soul He has just redeemed (ch. 12). Some believers, in particular the children of Christian parents, are satisfied that they are saved and take no account of the consecration which should then follow. But the same voice which says: "When I see the blood I will pass over" (Exodus 12:13), now demands: "Sanctify unto me all the firstborn . . . it is mine" (v. 2). With the feast of the passover was also closely associated the feast of unleavened bread. We learn from this that being put under the shelter of the blood and the need for a holy life are two inseparable truths for the children of God (read also Titus 2:14).
