Get it!
"Passover by Email"
- a student's dilemma
by James Coates
| From: | david@lpooluni.org |
| To: | abraham@aol.org |
| CC: | pmcbride@lpoolCU.org |
| Subject: | get it! |
Shalom Dad and Peter,
What an experience these last few days have been! I have come to understand my history, in the bigger context of God's work of salvation. It has been, quite literally, life transforming!
Joey is a real friend now - not just a room mate! We have discussed your letters - and the rest of the Bible - and I can see that it's true! I feel like those friends of Jesus, on the way to Emmaus, whose hearts were warmed and whose eyes were opened as Jesus explained how he was the fulfilment of all the Old Testament.
I have been studying and you both stopped too soon. It seems to me that the crossing of the Red Sea is a picture of what has happened to me. I have passed from death to life, from sin to salvation, but that is not the end. It's just the beginning.
As God led my people to Sinai and entered into a covenant relationship with them, He has done the same for me. Just as God (through the Tabernacle) came to live among His people, so too, God has come to live in me through His Holy Spirit. As God gave His Law to His people (a new way of living completely separated from the influence and ideologies of their Egyptian slave masters) so He has called me to a new life. To live for Him, not because I must but because He has done so much for me that it is the least I can offer.
Like Rabbi Simeon says, "surely, slavery was never what God intended for us!" Now, with the perfect completion of God's plan of salvation, I can have freedom.
Oh - I am free to serve Jesus. He took the initiative! His power alone has saved me, and I dedicate my life to Him.
Shalom,
David
P.S. I want to get baptized
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