‘Christ, our passover, has been sacrificed for us.’ (1 Corinthians 5:7)
“Here we rest, protected by the paschal blood, and feeding on the paschal lamb, with its unleavened bread and bitter herbs, from day to day.
‘Let us keep the feast’ (1 Cor. 5:8). Wherever we are, let us keep it.
For we carry our passover with us, always ready, always fresh.
With girded loins and staff in hand, as wayfarers, we move along, through the rough or the smooth of the wilderness, our face toward the land of promise.
That paschal lamb is CHRIST CRUCIFIED.
As such He is our protection, our pardon, our righteousness, our food, our strength, our peace.
Fellowship with Him upon the cross is the secret of a blessed and holy life.”
–Horatius Bonar, The Everlasting Righteousness; or, How Shall a Man be Just with God? (Carlisle, PA: Banner of Truth, 1873/2020), 97.
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