Devotions on F.I.R.E. Year OneSample

For indeed Christ, our Passover, was sacrificed for us (1 Corinthians 5:7).

Do you pass over the sins of others as Jesus has done for you?

The Israelites need deliverance from Egypt after 430 years of captivity; however, they need God’s forgiveness more. He instructs them to apply lamb’s blood to their doorposts and lintel, causing the angel of death not to kill their firstborn. He says, “I will pass over you, and the plague shall not be on you to destroy you when I strike the land of Egypt” (Exodus 12:13). Jesus is our Passover Lamb; His blood applied to our life should move us to forgive others. Paul writes, “forgiving one another, even as God in Christ forgave you” (Ephesians 4:32). We need to heed Jesus’ parable on forgiveness (Matthew 18:21-35), showing that we must forgive others their trespasses against us because we’ve been forgiven so much more.

Employment Point: Pass over the sins of others because of God’s Passover Lamb.