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Daily Devotionals
Day by Day Devotional - Year 1 of 5
Exodus 12:1-16
We come now to the account of the Passover in one of the most important chapters in the whole of the Old Testament. The promised redemption is now to be accomplished, while at the same time the most terrible of judgments will fall upon Egypt. Sin deserves death and all have sinned, the Israelites as well as the Egyptians. But for those who belong to the people of God, a lamb is to die in their stead. A clear and moving picture of Jesus, "a lamb without blemish and without spot: who verily was foreordained before the foundation of the world" and put to death at the moment appointed by God (1 Peter 1:19). We appropriate this sacrifice to ourselves; that is what eating the Passover signifies. Christ has gone through the fire of divine judgment: the lamb was roast with fire. And we think of His sorrows with the painful knowledge that it is our sin that has taken Him there. That is what corresponds to the bitter herbs. The lamb was eaten by the whole family – the parents with the children; every one in the household had his part. Dear reader, have you too personally "eaten the passover"? Have you in faith appropriated to yourself the atoning death of the Lord Jesus? It is a date never to be forgotten, the day of our conversion: the stepping off point for the true life, the new birth of the child of God (v. 2).
