The stories we tell are important and not just the stories of our imagination but of our history and of what has been done long ago. We have lost many of our stories as we allow the godless and the immoral leaders in our schools and our government to deny that they be told to our children.
The very purpose of holy days like Passover is to tell the story of what God has done. Many Christians do not have a Passover Seder because it is a little too Jewish maybe or it seems foreign in light of Christian tradition but we should remember that the Last Supper the disciples had with Jesus was a Passover Seder and the story that was told on that night was the very same story God commanded Israel to tell each year to their children.
Jesus brought a new chapter to the story of Passover and attached new meaning to two parts of the Seder and we tell it often when we partake of the Lord’s Supper and this is why it important not to lose the underlying story that connects to our story.
The telling of Passover to our children and to ourselves reminds us that the Lord heard our cry as we suffered the oppression of sin, the slavery brought by this world and the powers and principalities that rule it. Just like the children of Israel, we longed to be free of this body of sin and death and we needed the Lord to fight for us.
The Lord showed His mighty power by winning the victory over the enemy. Our enslavement was bitter and our tears salty but we were set free by the outstretched hand of God and now we can rest in Him.
The telling of this story, which is done much better at an actual Seder taking the time to break down the elements as well as break bread with believers, is meant to remind us of a very important truth.
Sin is allowed to remain for a season until all who will come to the Lord have come and that it will get very dark indeed before the Bright and Morning Star appears. The darkness was very black before Israel was released by Pharaoh and even darker as Jesus was arrested and hung on a cross.
I would encourage you to tell the story of Jesus and how that first Passover connects to the night He was betrayed. If you can’t join with other believers then tell the story in your own home, regardless of how many people are there. Read it, tell it and give thanks that we serve a God who fights for us and sets us free from the bondage of Egypt and sin.
