By: Lanora Campbell
Tonight, as I sit here at home after this past Sabbath meditating on the days ahead with Passover, Night to be much observed and the Days of Unleavened Bread all drawing closer. I was thinking about what a tremendous sacrifice God made for mankind by giving His only Son as a living sacrifice for each of us. I had to ask myself could I have made this same sacrifice. Could you? Sadly, to say I don’t think I could have especially without God’s divine intervention. Thankfully, God has a plan for mankind, and it is perfect. His plan was made before the foundation of the world so all of mankind could have salvation each in their own order and to have a chance to have their name written in the Book of Life.
This coming Sunday evening at sunset, many of us will memorialize the death of our Savior by taking the symbols of the New Testament Passover. We will meet, quietly and reflectively, to review the meaning of these symbols, and participate, by washing one another’s feet (John 13:3-17), eating unleavened bread, and drinking what amounts to a sip of wine (1 Corinthians 11:23-26), to commemorate the killing of Jesus Christ as the perfect, sinless sacrificial Lamb of God (1 Peter 1:19; 1 John 3:5), slain for the sins of mankind (John 1:29; Revelation 5:9). It is the celebration of a very sobering, yet triumphant event. Jesus died so that the rest of us might have life – real life – eternal life (1 John 2:2; John 6:40)! 
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