Soup Kitchen for the Soul. Renee Crosby

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СКАЧАТЬ tranquility and peace. It’s a sacred time in our life when all the scrambling, the attempt at control, the confusion over a lack of meaning in our lives, a lack of direction or misdirection, the constant heaviness of a cold and lonely world, and the struggling of our individual life...ceases.

      It’s like we were ourselves homeless, meandering, sojourning, feeling lost as if we didn’t fit in this world, feeling exhausted from having walked a long journey to arrive nowhere. As we approached what we thought the end of our destination, we were now inch by inch crawling along a sandy dry desert earth, only to realize our destination was merely a mirage.

      Then suddenly we look up and see that we have somehow arrived at the doorstep of home, marked by blood stained sides and top. It even smells familiar at the doorstep with that roast lamb dinner cooking, and boy does it feel safe inside.

      In those moments following the embarking action engaging us into a sacred covenant relationship with God, we enter the house where the Passover meal is about to be served, and we are astounded at the peace and tranquility of our wonderful Savior found within. I often think of the word savor when I think of our Savior. May we taste the amazing sweetness, or savor the flavor of a meal like we have never tasted before, like the Passover meal.

      Then, just as the Israelites were soon asked to leave their place of sequestered peace to go into the world on a journey and follow the LORD, we too are asked to go into the world and follow the LORD. Within the life altering Christian experience captured in the fleeting Passover moments of our modern faith walk, our Christian experience is much like those of our forefathers. It’s easy to think that the memory of such a unique and profound event filled with such peace and grace would stay with us forever, but somehow we come to forget. Just as our ancestors would forget, we too forget. Just as I forgot those beginning moments of peace through the saving grace of Jesus in that childhood kitchen in Indianapolis, Indiana.

      God knew our sinful nature would eclipse the spectacular sunshine of our defining Passover moments. That is why the first thing His people are told to do upon exiting is to remember. Let us heed the instructions from our God to remember and proclaim to our children the story of our Exodus from captivity.

      For in our modern faith walk, may every thought, word and deed be offered up to the LORD as a sacrifice readily and verbally proclaimed to our children, “I do this because of what the LORD did for me when we came out of Egypt” (Exodus 13:8). We too must work at remembering our heritage. We too must realize that we are leaving an old way of life behind for a new life of freedom. We too must tell the story to our children.

      KEY MEMORY VERSES

      1. On that day tell your son, 'I do this because of what the LORD did for me when I came out of Egypt. – Exodus 13:8

      2. We have been made right in God’s sight by faith, we have peace with God, because of what Jesus Christ our Lord has done for us. – Romans 5:1 NLT

      QUESTIONS FOR DISCUSSION

      1. Discuss the relevance of the Passover experience for us today. Is it any different than that of our ancestors?

      2. Do you remember first believing? Share your experience or journal it.

      3. What is it that God brings back to you through this Passover story that you may have forgotten?

      4. What if we would do something every day to remember the story God has given us to claim as our defining moment instead of forgetting? What if we did that? What is it that you feel led to do in order to daily remember the grace and peace of your defining salvation moment?

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