Walking in Spiritual Reality by Relating with God through the Lord’s Feast of Unleavened Bread

TRUTH AND PURPOSE

The Feast of Unleavened Bread offers us many values and benefits. How so? Life throws us challenges all the time. People will always say and do things that will defile us. What’s important to God is that we keep clean on the inside. Things like bitterness, unforgiveness or wrong attitudes will defile us on the inside. So He gives us a visual aid representing His way to be strengthened on the inside and cleansed for greater purposes– for His glory.

During the Feast of Unleavened Bread, the home was cleared from all traces of leaven. What’s the issue with leaven? It’s a turbulent form of bacterium that is permeating and pervasive in nature. It spreads like a cancer or virus, contaminating, polluting and corrupting what it touches. As it spreads, it compromises and destroys what is true, good and otherwise pure. It therefore, is used as a metaphor for sin and falsehood. We can learn many things from this visual aid.

RELEVANCE

As we walk in this life, we are continuously bombarded with messages of this world that may seem good. The majority of them, however, are rooted in the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.  They look good on the outside—but are not rooted in God’s truth or the life of His Spirit—and therefore, cannot bear the life, wisdom or fruit of His Spirit, and produce God’s real peace and joy.

God wants us to eat of the tree of life!  He wants us to discern between what is of Him and what is of the world. He wants to bring us from confusion to clarity. That is accomplished by seeking God’s wisdom and peace through His Word and Spirit; and comes from receiving the true light of the world—the Lord, Messiah Yeshua- Jesus.

The Lord’s sacrifice, therefore, not only released you from the burdens of the effects of sin but accomplished what the Law of Moses could never permanently do. From God’s perspective, it legally cleared you of all possible charges of sin. Consequently, it removed all possible effects of guilt, condemnation, and confusion found under the law of sin and death!

His last words proclaimed on the cross were, “It is finished!”  (John 19:30)  Paul, therefore, endeavored to clear believers’ conscience from all traces of guilt. So he proclaimed:

And because you belong to him, the power of the life-giving Spirit has freed you from the power of sin that leads to death. 3 The law of Moses was unable to save us because of the weakness of our sinful nature. So God did what the law could not do. He sent his own Son in a body like the bodies we sinners have. And in that body God declared an end to sin’s control over us by giving his Son as a sacrifice for our sins. 4 He did this so that the just requirement of the law would be fully satisfied for us, who no longer follow our sinful nature but instead follow the Spirit.  (Romans 8:1-5 NLT)

Therefore, free from guilt and condemnation, you can more easily receive the Lord’s love– His mercy and truth. By receiving His mercy and truth, you walk with a refreshed mindset and perspective on life—God’s perspective! Such a mindset sets things clear to you so you see with God’s kind of open vision.  Truly, His open vision enables you to walk in new dimensions of the light of His wisdom and truth.

So receive the pour of God’s love through the Holy Spirit. As a result, you will see new things with greater clarity and be strengthened in new dimensions of His new life. Truly, God is always doing and planning new things– for our good and His glory. So receive and embrace Paul’s prayer for enlightenment and strengthening.

Therefore I also, after I heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus and your love for all the saints, 16 do not cease to give thanks for you, making mention of you in my prayers: 17 that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give to you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of Him, 18 the eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that you may know what is the hope of His calling, what are the riches of the glory of His inheritance in the saints, 19 and what is the exceeding greatness of His power toward us who believe, according to the working of His mighty power 20 which He worked in Christ when He raised Him from the dead and seated Him at His right hand in the heavenly places, 21 far above all principality and power and might and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this age but also in that which is to come. (Ephesians 1:15-21)

REFLECT AND RELATE

Have you allowed the Lord to clear all the charges of guilt and condemnation from your conscience?

Are there areas where you still come under guilt and condemnation?

Have you received the full mercy of God?

Ask the Lord to show you new doors through which He has made a way for you to go.

REFERENCES

Romans 8:1-3; Colossians 2:13-15; Matthew 6:14-15;
Mark 11:25; Luke 17:3-4; 23:34; 1 John 1:9

NEXT STEPS

Vertical movement: As you experience the refreshment of the Holy Spirit, you more fully appreciate sweet intimate communion with the Lord.

Horizontal movement: The more you allow the Holy Spirit to refresh you, the more you see with strengthened open vision. This further positions you to experience greater measures of God’s grace; and likewise, the presence and gifts of the Holy Spirit.

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