A series preparing hearts for Easter… (Day 3)
We pause to listen to His Word,
linger,
lift up voice in prayer…
then go live the Word.
Perhaps gather family to join, cutting out the accompanying artwork and hang symbol on an Easter Passion Tree.
Listen to His Word (read):
From the Message:
Exodus 12:21-30
Moses assembled all the elders of Israel. He said, “Select a lamb for your families and slaughter the Passover lamb. Take a bunch of hyssop and dip it in the bowl of blood and smear it on the lintel and on the two doorposts. No one is to leave the house until morning. God will pass through to strike Egypt down. When he sees the blood on the lintel and the two doorposts, God will pass over the doorway; he won’t let the destroyer enter your house to strike you down with ruin.
24-27 “Keep this word. It’s the law for you and your children, forever. When you enter the land which God will give you as he promised, keep doing this. And when your children say to you, ‘Why are we doing this?’ tell them: ‘It’s the Passover-sacrifice to God who passed over the homes of the Israelites in Egypt when he hit Egypt with death but rescued us.’”
The people bowed and worshiped.
28 The Israelites then went and did what God had commanded Moses and Aaron. They did it all.
29 At midnight God struck every firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh, who sits on his throne, right down to the firstborn of the prisoner locked up in jail. Also the firstborn of the animals.
30 Pharaoh got up that night, he and all his servants and everyone else in Egypt—what wild wailing and lament in Egypt! There wasn’t a house in which someone wasn’t dead.
Linger on His Word: (Join children in closing eyes and envisioning the passage…linger.)
“It’s the Passover-sacrifice to God who passed over the homes of the Israelites in Egypt when he hit Egypt with death but rescued us.’”
The people bowed and worshiped.
Lift up voice in prayer, responding to His Word:
Father, we paint ourselves red with Jesus’ blood so that satan cannot enter into this soul place to wrack ruin and death, but that You would come through the door of our hearts… that we would come through Jesus, the door, and into Your Presence.
We are rescued. Rescued! Passed Over!
We bow down.
Live the Word (contemplate it so long that it settles down into heart, hands, feet):
Today, we wear a necklace, a bracelet, a scarf, some visible reminder that we have chosen to clothe the lintels of our souls in You. We choose You.
Because of the blood and cross of Christ, we are passed over. We live a day of worship: gratitude for the Gift of Rescue.
Print, mount, cut, hang art symbol on Easter Tree
