Daily Encouragementنموونە

These words stress one particular aspect of the purpose of the annual Passover celebration. That purpose was to remember the redemption “from the land of slavery, from the power of Pharaoh king of Egypt,” when the Lord brought his people out “with a mighty hand” (Deut. 7:8). The emphasis here is on “the time of your departure from Egypt.”

Not every Christian can pin-point the exact time of his or her conversion. However, many can do so and the memory of that day sheds its light on every other day of their lives. All believers can identify with the exhortation, “remember that at the time you were separate from Christ . . . without hope and without God in the world. But now in Christ Jesus you . . . have been brought near through the blood of Christ” (Eph. 2:12-13). Their hearts respond, too, to words like these:

O, happy day! that fixed by choice
On Thee, my Saviour and my God;
Well may this glowing heart rejoice,
And tell its raptures all abroad.

High heaven, that heard the solemn vow,
That vow renewed shall daily hear;
Till in life’s latest hour I bow,
And bless in death a bond so dear.
(Philip Doddridge)