Today, I am reading and commenting on  Exodus 13-15.

I have a Youtube video of me reading the Scripture passage and my comments. Please check it out and let me know your thoughts.

It occurred to me yesterday that when we celebrate Communion, or Eucharist, or the Lord’s Supper (whichever term you prefer for this celebration of Christ’s sacrifice for our sins), we should also be remembering the things for which the Passover feast, also known as the Feast of Unleavened Bread, served as a reminder.  In today’s passage, God tells Moses that they should celebrate this feast as a remembrance that God brought the people of Israel out of Egypt with a strong hand.  The Feast of Unleavened Bread was intended to remind the Israelites of the Ten Plagues which God brought down on Egypt in order to compel the Egyptians to let them go free, culminating in the death of all of their firstborn sons.  However, it also commemorated the way in which God further used His strong arm to rescue them from Pharaoh’s army.  When we celebrate Communion (the term I grew up using) we should remember these as well.  The Eucharist is a celebration of Jesus sacrificing Himself as the ultimate Passover Lamb.  As such, we should remember the song which Moses and the people of Israel sang the morning after crossing the sea:
I will sing to the Lord, for he has triumphed gloriously;
    the horse and his rider he has thrown into the sea.
 The Lord is my strength and my song,
    and he has become my salvation;
this is my God, and I will praise him,
    my father’s God, and I will exalt him.
 The Lord is a man of war;
    the Lord is his name.

The Lord is indeed my strength and my song and He has become my salvation.

I use the daily Bible reading schedule from “The Bible.net” for my daily Bible reading.