Life & Light

“Speak to all the congregation of Israel, saying, in the tenth day of this month each man shall take to themselves a lamb, according to the house of their fathers, a lamb for a house. And if the household is too little for the lamb, let him and his neighbor next to his house take it according to the number of souls…” (Exodus 12:3,4).

Great truths belong to this Passover week. The first is that Israel was “too little” a household for blood of Christ. The Father said, “It is too little a thing that You should restore the preserved of Israel: I will also give You to be a light to the Nations, that You may be My salvation to the ends of the earth” (Isaiah 49:6).  

Just as the Lamb was to be examined for three days, Jesus endured three days of the religious leaders testing Him, presenting trick questions of Scripture and morality. He didn’t lose His temper but answered every attempt with grace and truth, until finally, “no man dared ask Him any more questions.” 

Later the Romans scourged Him, but “when He was reviled, He reviled not again; when He suffered, He threatened not.” Then on the cross, when His blood could flow no more, He cried out with a loud voice, “It is Finished!”.  The Lamb was slain. Every debt of sin, for Israel and all people of the world, had been paid in full.

Now the blood must be applied personally. At the first Passover, the Israelites brushed the blood of the lamb upon the doorway of their houses, forming the Hebrew “Chet” which means not only “Life” but “Light”. This precious truth is fulfilled in Christ.  His death on that cross must be applied to the doorway of every heart. Death cannot touch the one guarded by “The Life,” and no darkness can conquer the Home that dwells in the Light of His Word.

One day soon, when the last person is under His blood, and the fulness of time has come, He will lead us out. Until then, God bless you as you share the truths of Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world.

(Devotional by Lisa Cataford)