Days of Awe

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Encouragement for your daily walk with God 

Right at the moment, our Jewish friends are celebrating the “Days of Awe.” The Days of Awe is the time between the Jewish New Year, Rosh Hashana, and Yom Kippur,  the Day of Atonement coming up on September 13/14.

One of the themes of Rosh Hashana is called Akedat Yitzchak—the Binding of Isaac. The blowing of the shofar on Rosh Hashana is to remind God’s people of the provision of a sacrifice other than Abraham’s only son. God provided the sacrifice, just as He would when He sent the offering of His only Son, Jesus—THE Sacrifice for all of mankind. 

While I am not Jewish, I plan to celebrate. God provided a sacrifice for my sin, and as a result of that, my name is written in the “Book of Life.” Jesus; the perfect sacrifice, the Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world—my Savior, who provides forgiveness that is eternal, and whose love is everlasting.

And Isaac spoke to Abraham his father, and said, My father: and he said, Here am I, my son. Then he said, Behold the fire and the wood: but where is the lamb for a burnt offering? And Abraham said, My son, God will provide Himself a lamb for a burnt offering: so they went both of them together. And they came to the place which God had told him of; and Abraham built an altar there, and placed the wood in order, and he bound Isaac his son, and laid him on the altar upon the wood. And Abraham stretched out his hand, and took the knife to slay his son. And the angel of the LORD called unto him out of heaven, and said, Abraham, Abraham: and he said, Here am I. And He said, Lay not thine hand upon the lad, neither do thou any thing unto him: for now I know that you fear God, since you have not withheld your son, your only son, from Me. Then Abraham lifted up his eyes, and looked, and there behind him was a ram caught in a thicket by its horns. So Abraham went and took the ram, and offered it up for a burnt offering instead of his son. Genesis 22:7-13