Gospel Re-Formed

As we celebrated Easter, I pondered what it meant to be with Jesus on the day He died. Jesus and His disciples gathered together that night in order to take the Passover meal, in accordance with scripture. This was a time set aside to remember the day God passed over Israel. God, desiring to rescue His people, was bringing judgement to Egypt through the death of all firstborn. Death was literally coming, but the blood of the sacrificial lamb above their door was the sign that His people believed that God would save them. Those with this mark would be passed over from death. The next morning His people were alive, but the first born of the people of Egypt were not. God redeemed His people. Each part of the seder meal was meant to reflect this time. As Jesus passed the wine to His disciples, they would have remembered that they are sacred to God. When they washed their hands they proclaimed that they were clean. As they tasted the bitterness of the vegetables in salt, they are reminded o...