Our Passover

 DEVOTION

THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO LUKE

OUR PASSOVER

Luke 22:7-13

7 Then came the day of Unleavened Bread on which the Passover lamb had to be sacrificed. 8 Jesus sent Peter and John, saying, "Go and make preparations for us to eat the Passover."  9 "Where do you want us to prepare for it?" they asked. 10 He replied, "As you enter the city, a man carrying a jar of water will meet you. Follow him to the house that he enters, 11 and say to the owner of the house, 'The Teacher asks: Where is the guest room, where I may eat the Passover with my disciples?' 12 He will show you a large upper room, all furnished. Make preparations there."  13 They left and found things just as Jesus had told them. So they prepared the Passover.

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Once again we are shown the divinity of Jesus, knowing things in advance of them happening. He knew the man would be carrying a water jar and he knew exactly which house the man would enter, and that house would have an upper guest room that was large enough with a large enough table for thirteen men to lay around eating a Passover meal. Only some houses in Jerusalem would have such a guest room available, but Jesus knew which one did. This was to be the last Passover Jesus would have with his disciples celebrating the passing over of the death angel in Egypt. However, two Passover lambs were at that dinner with the disciples, the one they prepared, and Jesus.  He was going to be the last Passover lamb, however, because He is the Lamb of God, he was going to make it possible for the death angel to pass over us, but just as the people in Egypt had to eat all of the lamb, we have to ingest all of Jesus. We not only must accept him as our Lord and Savoir, but we must take all of Jesus within our being, fully invested in Jesus, consuming all of him into our lives. Although we do quote Paul more often during the time we celebrate the Passover, except we call it communion, we still eat the bread and drink from the cup, as Jesus did on the night with his disciples before and after the meal. We do it as a remembrance of Jesus being the Lamb of God who gave his life for us. However, we do not think too much about Jesus being our Passover lamb, but more of our Savior. But the reality is that Jesus is our Passover Lamb because that death angel has no more power over us than he had over the Israelites in Egypt. Jesus promised as long we are in him, and He is in us, although we die, we will live. There will be a day when we take our last breath on the earth, and our next or first breath in glory. We should always be in the mode of preparing for our passing over or Passover to Glory.