'Remember your Departure'

S – Deuteronomy 16:3b

 

‘Do not eat it with bread made with yeast, but for seven days eat unleavened bread, the bread of affliction, - because you left Egypt in haste, so that all the days of your life you may remember the time of your departure from Egypt.

 

O – This was a directive from the Lord to establish a very important and significant remembrance time. To remember the time of departure from Egypt all the days of their lives. This was not to be just a casual or a reflective remembrance. The Lord saw it as a very significant event in the lives of the people. It was no doubt a very raw and real memory to that generation that had been led out. They knew it as a time of slavery, domination, death and despair. How easy though for later generations to forget or be unaware of what it was like and the likelihood of it then becoming simply history or a story that was told and losing the  power of deliverance and the significance for destiny.

 

A – I know I am encouraged to embrace and move into what is ahead. However I need to remember my own personal departure from that Kingdom of Darkness into God’s Kingdom. How easy it is for me to forget the consequences of what I have been saved from. My salvation is a great event of deliverance with eternal significance. My remembrance of this departure from Egypt keeps me focused on the Grace and Love of God. The lord is my Deliverer and I must never forget that. I am blessed with Him being my Provider, Counsellor Strength and so many things – but foremost He is my deliverer. He has taken me from one state into another and I can never forget or devalue that.

 

P – Lord I thank you that you rescued and set me free from the bondage and consequences of sin. Let me never forget from where I have departed.