Your Beginning of Months

This month shall be unto you the beginning of months: it shall be the first month of the year to you. 

Exodus 12:2 

God gave His order to Israel’s calendar.  It is significant for us to consider where and how God wanted Israel to begin their year.  He began it with Passover.  It was at that season that they would select the lamb, observe the lamb, kill the lamb, and consume the lamb.  It was the blood of the lamb that would deliver them from death, for God said, ‘and when I see the blood, I will pass over you.’  It was because of the effects of the Passover, that the Israelites would gain their freedom from Egypt.  For us to understand this, we should consider the statement of the New Testament, ‘For indeed Christ, our Passover, was sacrificed for us.’  God intended that His chosen people should begin their year by looking to the lamb.  It is even so with us.  We have come today to what is for us the, beginning of months.  If we want to begin well, continue well, and finish well, we must look to Christ.  He is, as John the Baptist described Him, ‘the Lamb of God, Who takes away the sin of the world.’  Now is the time for us to set our course for the incoming year.  Let us begin with Christ, His Person and His work.  Let us fix our eyes upon the Altogether Lovely One.  He has lived perfectly, died sacrificially, arisen powerfully, intercedes perpetually and is coming gloriously. 

Our Glorious, Living Savior, 
we rejoice in the privilege that we have 
  to begin our year, by looking to You. 
We praise You that You will lead us aright, 
in all our ways, throughout this new year. 

Tomm Tice
Where the Bush is Burning