When the children of Israel were slaves in Egypt, they lived in poverty and faced the daily difficulties of their cruel masters: Scars and fresh lashes from their masters’ whips covered their bodies, the blistering heat of Egypt caused excruciating sores to fester, and many of them were bent over because of the long hours spent carrying tons of bricks and mortar.
Many of them were weak and emaciated because of no proper nourishment and the fact of working for long hours in these difficult conditions.
But something happened to them on the night of Passover (see Exodus 12). With the blood of the lamb applied on their doorposts, they came under God’s protection. And inside their homes, as instructed by God, they ate the lamb roasted in fire.
And when morning came, something new and miraculous happened to them:
« He also brought them out with silver and gold, and there was none feeble among His tribes. »(Psalm 105:37)
They went forth with God no longer as slaves but free people. They were no longer poor and needy, but possessed silver and gold given to them by the Egyptians. And none of them—there were about 2.5 million of them—were feeble or sickly!
If this was what the children of Israel experienced after partaking of the Passover lamb, which was only a shadow or type of Christ, how much more will we who have come under the covering of the holy blood of Jesus, the true Lamb of God, experience such blessings?
When we put our trust in the Lamb of God who was burnt by God’s fiery judgment meant for us, we will go forth daily, neither poor nor feeble, but abundantly supplied and divinely strengthened in Christ!
PRAYER:
Lord our God, give us also, as you did for the children of Israel, to be free from all weakness and poverty.
It is in the precious name of your son Jesus Christ that we pray.
Amen.
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