Passover

For as long as they could remember, they had celebrated on this day. They would gather together with their extended families and eat the traditional meal, while Dad told the story to the children of their ancestors and how God had provided for them in a far away land.

They were anxious to get to the city and begin the holiday preparations. His heart was heavy with the burden before him…this year would be different for all of them. Still, He honored their desire to keep this year as festive as it had always been. He instructed them to enter the city, where they would find a man carrying water who had a large upstairs room. Just as he said, the man was there and the room was perfect for what would be their last supper together.

They prepared the meal, unaware that their beloved teacher would be the Passover lamb.

The meal was the same as it had always been: the shank bone of a lamb to represent the sacrifice of an animal’s life in exchange for their own, bitter herbs to represent the bitterness of slavery in Egypt, pureed apples and walnuts to represent the bricks and mortar made by their ancestors in slavery, an egg as the symbol of new life, the bread without yeast to represent the cleansing of sin, and 4 cups of wine (one to be left untouched as a symbol of waiting for the coming Messiah to dine with them).

They couldn’t have understood how He fulfilled the symbols, but still He explained to them what was happening as they ate.

We want Cadence to understand who God is…the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob…the God of Mae-Mae, Grampuh, Honey, Bee, Mama and Dada. We want her to know what He has done in the past…in providing for His children, in sending His son, Jesus, to earth to literally save us from death. We want her to know that Jesus is coming back and there will come a day when we will eat this meal with Him…when His cup at the table will not be empty because he will sit and dine with us. So this year we shared the Passover meal with Cadence.