Exodus 12:12 “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.
Again today I am struggling with the academic remove, the strict rule-following of today’s verses. If anyone (Israelite or Egyptian, saint or sinner) followed these rules/instructions and put the blood on the lintels and doorposts, that house would be spared. So if you were faithful your entire life and for some reason missed this one thing, you were out.
Exodus 12:13 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.
That sort of rule-following religion is hard for me. I’m not saying I don’t want to follow the rules. I’ve already admitted to being a rule-follower, but I mess up DAILY. If messing up one time means being out of God’s favor forever, the nature of humanity means Heaven is going to be pretty lonely.
Exodus 12:14 “This is a day you are to commemorate; for the generations to come you shall celebrate it as a festival to the Lord—a lasting ordinance.
Precious Savior, I struggle with some of the Old Testament, with the anger, and vengefulness, with the absolutes and rules. I struggle because I know that I mess up daily, multiple times a day. I know that Your grace, Your fierce, deep, complete love are the only things that save me. Help me, Jesus. Amen.
Exodus 12:15 For seven days you are to eat bread made without yeast. On the first day remove the yeast from your houses, for whoever eats anything with yeast in it from the first day through the seventh must be cut off from Israel.
Have a blessed day.