A new beginning

 

Luke 24:1-3

But on the first day of the week, at early dawn, they went to the tomb, taking the spices they had prepared.

They found the stone rolled away from the tomb,

but when they entered, they did not find the body of the Lord Jesus.

We are fast approaching the Jewish feast of Pesach, or Passover, which this year starts on the evening of 5 April.  Jews commemorate the exodus of their forefathers from Egypt, which includes the slaughtering of a perfect lamb so that its blood, sprinkled on the lintels of their doors in Egypt, would signal  the angel of death to “pass over” their house and not kill their firstborn of both humans and animals.

But we, through the grace of God, know that Jesus was our Passover Lamb and His blood, sprinkled on the mercy seat in heaven, redeemed us out of the hand of the enemy, making us a new creation and giving us a new beginning.

Have you ever thought about the fact that the women found Jesus’ tomb empty specifically on a Sunday morning?

When we read about God creating heaven and earth, we read that creation started on what God simply called ‘a day’.  The beginning of something new.  This first day of the week was later given the name Sunday, though in Hebrew it is Yom Rishon, meaning Day One. The prophetic significance of discovering the tomb empty on a Sunday is that Jesus brought an end to the old, and made everything new by creating a new Day One, a new and living way!

Points to Ponder:

 Embrace the fact that your old way of living with its wrongdoing and wrong thinking and failures and shame and self-condemnation has been done away with in Jesus Christ, Whose sacrifice paved the way for you to live every day as Day One, as a new beginning!

Passover Lamb