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This is a day to remember. Each year, from generation to generation, you must celebrate it as a special festival to the Lord. This is a law for all time.  For seven days the bread you eat must be made without yeast. On the first day of the festival, remove every trace of yeast from your homes. Anyone who eats bread made with yeast during the seven days of the festival will be cut off from the community of Israel.  On the first day of the festival and again on the seventh day, all the people must observe an official day for holy assembly. No work of any kind may be done on these days except in the preparation of food.

We need to remember.  The passage above is about a celebration that God called His people to have each and every year.  There was that time when God actually sent judgment on a community where the oldest child of the family would die, but if a family did something extra, their child would live.

This celebration was for the grace God gave to those families that followed His way.  Their child didn’t die.  Their families were saved from great pain.

Have you and your family come through times where there was much pain?  Was their a time when your family experienced a miracle or saw God doe something extra ordinary?  Most of us have.

We need to remember.  We need to tell others.  Our stories have been put together, given by God, so that others can see, hear and come to know the goodness of our God.

He dives us times to remember.  He gives us times to celebrate.

Have you noticed the link?  The celebration is not about a child saved.  The celebration is specifically about the goodness and the greatness of God.  We need to remember.  We need to share.

Let’s celebrate all that God has done for each of us!

Joshua 4:6  NLT
We will use these stones to build a memorial. In the future your children will ask you, ‘What do these stones mean?’

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