“Celebrate a festival in my honor three times a year. Observe the Festival of Unleavened Bread. As I commanded you, you are to eat unleavened bread from seven days at the appointed time in the month of Abib, because you came out of Egypt in that month. No one is to appear before me empty-handed. Also observe the Festival of Harvest with the first fruits of your produce from what you sow in the field, and observe the Festival of Ingathering at the end of the year, when you gather your produce from the field. Three times a year all your males are to appear before the Lord God.” (CSB – Read the chapter)
What kind of celebrations do you have as a regular part of your family’s rhythm? Are they all calendar holidays, or do you have some that are more personalized than that? Those celebrations, whatever they happen to be, are more significant than you might realize in terms of shaping your understanding of the world and how it works. Celebrations like that give us a framework for what we understand to be true. This doesn’t necessarily mean they help us get the truth right, but they create a belief framework for us. In the same way, they frame out for us what is right and what kinds of things are important. When God was going through the process of establishing Israel as a people, He gave them instructions to create some regular celebrations as a part of their rhythm. Let’s take a look at the first real introduction He gives to these here.
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