Bibledoorajar: The Boast of God's Provision

     The Israelites had taken a lamb, the lamb, their lamb and slaughtered it and placed its' blood upon their doorposts on the outside of their homes. Their confidence now rested on this aspect of their acceptance of God's freedom process. Their boast to each other was that God would prevent the destroyer from doing any damage to their firstborn through the blood on the doorposts.  But they were also supposed to carry out a provision on the inside of their houses too. They were to roast their lamb's flesh with fire and eat the flesh with unleavened bread and with bitter herbs. Thus, not only would they be saved but they would have the strength that food gives to begin the journey that lay before them.

We have small unbaptized children in our family who closely observe the believers partaking of the communion. They do not completely understand what God has appropriated for us in the feast nor do they yet have a great appreciation for the fellowship and community that we enjoy as we partake. We try to teach them that the focus is on Jesus. That He is the Lamb of God and the Bread of Life. Each week we get sustained; He gets honored. I so do not want them to miss the significance of the death that brings life. It is, after all, not the hero view of the young. The hero never dies! To them the play hero that they may hold in their hands even during the communion service holds greater power to ward off those who would want to harm them. And yet we continue to teach that that dead Lamb would live again and would become the basis for the greatest boast of all for believers.

      "Our confidence, even our boast, is in the perfection of another, in him 'who makes men holy,' making us chidren in the family of God and infinitely precious to Him."

                                                                                                Hebrews 2:11

My prayer for our children in 2016 is that this great boast will not just be a dry doctrine, but that they will embrace the whole truth of God's great love for us and that that great love led Him to come to us in our great need. They need that powerful food!