Seder

We've done a Seder every year since we've been married. It's a really fun tradition, and it gets more meaningful each time we do it.

We change things up a bit, of course, figuring we're under the New Covenant and that we really wouldn't be doing it right even if we tried to do it perfectly right (for one thing, this pregnant lady isn't going to clean her entire house, including the bottoms of all the shoes, looking for little crumbs that might have leaven in them). For another thing, we have some food that's probably not strictly traditional and omit others that are (you can't make me eat gefelte fish). We do, however, have the real Seder plate, and we do go through the ritual where we remember that God saved us out of Egypt.

Tied in with all the Passover traditions in our Haggadah are a lot of references to redemption, freedom, victory, and blood. This is an Orthodox Haggadah we're talking about; they don't apparently know that they've anticipated Easter or foreshadowed the ultimate Passover Lamb beautifully. But as Christians, it's amazing to see the continuity between the Old and New Testaments, and to see the beauty of the Lord setting up Communion during the last Passover meal He ate with His disciples.

In keeping with that, we sometimes end our Seder with my husband serving everyone Communion, using the wine and the matzoh. The symbolism is powerful, and it becomes immediately apparent what He was claiming to be--the Lamb to end death, the King of redemption, the Bringer of freedom. There's a moment during Seder when you invite anyone who is hungry or desolate to come and eat with you, symbolically inviting the whole world to share the feast. When Christ said He wouldn't drink the cup again until He drank it with us in the new kingdom, He suspended the Passover meal until all those who would, could come and share His meal, so to speak.

God doesn't do anything accidentally. If I don't remember anything else from this Passover, I'm going to try to remember that.

Have a blessed Easter tomorrow,

Breanna