04/02/2026
It is currently the feast of Unleavened Bread- a week long feast that remembers the Exodus from Egyptian bo***ge. As the Israelites quickly had to pack up their things to leave, that meant there was no time for their dough to rise and left them with unleavened bread on their journey.
This is a time as Christians that we take the time to search the “leaven”, the sin, in our own lives. It’s a time to remember that we are responsible for our own “leaven” and to ask the Lord to shine His light and reveal the secret places and crevices.
Historically, before Passover began, each family would use a candle, a wooden spoon, and a feather to go to every area in their house and search for any crumbs. Any time there would be crumbs found, they would be swept up into the spoon with the feather and burned- the spoon being burned as well.
This symbolizes so much for us as believers today:
-the candle representing the light of Jesus
-the search representing the soul search in our own heart and lives
-the feather representing the grace that we are met with in sin- how when we see The LORD’s grace we must be quick to release sin.
-the burning of the crumbs afterward to represent that beautiful picture of our sin being destroyed without a trace when we give it to Jesus.
Take this next week to reflect on your own “house” and allow the light of Jesus to shine in those secret places you’ve been trying to hide. And I pray that as you do that, you will experience the feather of “grace” that the Lord will meet you with.
“You shall eat no leavened bread with it. Seven days you shall eat it with unleavened bread, the bread of affliction—for you came out of the land of Egypt in haste—that all the days of your life you may remember the day when you came out of the land of Egypt.” Deuteronomy 16:3
“Your boasting is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven leavens the whole lump? Cleanse out the old leaven that you may be a new lump, as you really are unleavened. For Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed. Let us therefore celebrate the festival, not with the old leaven, the leaven of malice and evil, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.” 1 Corinthians 5:6-8
“Since we have these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from every defilement of body and spirit, bringing holiness to completion in the fear of God.” 2 Corinthians 7:1
“Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own, for you were bought with a price. So glorify God in your body.” 1 Corinthians 6:19
