When doors were closed...
and painted the destroyer came
i keep leaning on this thought over and over somehow that was true then it came for everyone back then back there back in Egypt Israel wasn’t innocent Egypt wasn’t the only one guilty every door in Egypt was guilty and maybe that’s why He gave those instructions for His people’s doors to be marked different so Israel’s firstborns would be spared because when the destroyer comes even they too would be found wanting the Passover lamb somehow the clearest brush of redemption and grace on their doors a substitution dying as them so they would be found innocent because when the destroyer comes justice just won’t skip doors God can’t break His own standard for justice if Israel’s doors were to be skipped conveniently innocently without the mark of the lamb would that mean He is actually just? but the Passover lamb carves His way into the story as a substitute for sin so it seems then fast forward to Jesus too a substitute for sin coming to live and die 100% God 100% human that somehow He would take on Himself the sin of the world our nature upon His shoulders so that we would be found just could it be that justice was personified as the destroyer? and there’s no exception in this story not for any of us really you and I and everyone in between none are just as we are the next scene replaying the same truth on repeat in the old and new testament decentering us as the main character grace covers our doors by the blood of the lamb.
Heart Call:
We're learning that Easter is every day.
12 “On that same night I will pass through Egypt and strike down every firstborn of both people and animals, and I will bring judgment on all the gods of Egypt. I am the Lord. 13 The blood will be a sign for you on the houses where you are, and when I see the blood, I will pass over you. No destructive plague will touch you when I strike Egypt.
Are you thinking about the Passover Lamb and Easter every day?
until next time friends!
xoxo,
Lynn :)
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