February 17, 2011 Celebrate

Celebrate
Read Leviticus 23-25

Lev 23:44 So Moses announced to the Israelites the appointed feasts of the LORD.

THE FEAST and festivals the Lord God gave his people were designed to celebrate God and remember his great works. God set these feasts for his people to remember his goodness and praise his grace. God had delivered them from bondage, provided food and shelter in the desert, gave them a land to live in and established an order to their society.
These remembrances looked forward. From this time, God continued to set the stage for the Hebrews. Some of the Feasts and Festivals—the Day of Atonement, the Passover, the Feast of the Unleavened Bread—would be fulfilled in Jesus, the Savior.
As a result, these celebrations are now for you, to remember God for his mighty work in your lives as he draws you closer to him.
Today we have the church to be our “celebration place”. The church worship each Sunday should be a time of remembering what God has done and desiring to respond to him with lives of faith.
When you stop and consider the wonder of God’s creation, the glory of his salvation and the promise of our eternal resurrection, how can you not celebrate?
Wow!


Pause and Consider: how can your home be a celebration place?