STRENGTH TO ZION

The Importance of Obtaining Approval for Your Excuse

Why is it so important for us to be educated and to educate our children about this Passover meal that Moses instituted? Well, for one, it saved our lives. And for two, God tells us to remember it. My parents told me that it was once a part of their annual tradition to sit down on their date of anniversary and to review where they were at. They would, so to speak, review the contract and come to terms with whether or not they were hitting the mark. This enabled them to see their achievements and their failures annually, rather than to wait and be surprised in a divorce court. Their idea is a good one. God does the same thing with his own people. He calls us to come to the table in order to review the terms. Then he tells us how we are doing. He reviews our life vision, our love story, our work order, and our time table. He makes corrections, institutes helpful changes, and causes us to realize that this is not just about us. We are in a community marriage partnership with the King of Kings, and the Lord of Lords. But in order to benefit from his counsel, and that is exactly what it is, we must first make it to the table. If you never come to the table, you will never know whether or not you were excused.

The Protocol is Reinstated At The Table

This meeting with God was so crucial that God told Moses that whoever doesn’t come will be cut off from his people. That means that they would wander for the year without an honorable life vision, without an honorable love story, without an honorable work order, and without an honorable time table. God knows that all of these terms are important. If his people don’t have the right four ingredients, no matter how well they perform, it won’t be good enough. Only God can put his people on track every year. Only God can ensure productivity and profitablity that He honors. When we neglect to come to the table, we don’t know the terms that we need to know. We don’t know how to free ourselves out of dangerous situations that are all around us. Some situations are so dangerous that they are a matter of life and death, and generational curse vs. generational blessing. The wrong move can alter everything! When we neglect to come to the table, we become married to the super power who has us in bondage– the power of darkness. You see, the table is the only place to come, and the only way to go. Otherwise, there is no freedom. It is such an important meeting, that God tells us about it now, in Shevat, two months before the meeting. And he tells us how we must prepare. In these preparation instructions, he reveals the truth. Israel will not go out of bondage if she does not come to the table.

God’s Protocol is the Only One That Meets The Elected Criteria

So Israel couldn’t free herself. If she could have, she would have a long time ago. God had to save her. That was the protocol. Israel had to allow herself to be saved. There are going to be times in your life when you simply can’t play the part of savior. The role must be given to someone else. Someone who can compete with the superpower in your world who has become greater than you can handle. All you can do is follow directions. You stay in when he tells you to stay in, you borrow what he tells you to borrow, you sacrifice what he tells you to sacrifice, and you leave when he tells you that it is time to go. The secret is that it is one baby step at a time because it is all about timing. No one knows the best time for everything except God. When you heed his directions, suddenly, what others have compelled you to do for years becomes “done” in a moment’s notice. It was done for you, through you. Yes, you did it. But not the way they expected you to. They wanted you to have the strength to leave the superpower in your life. You couldn’t. All you could do was to come to the table when God called you, and to go from the table when he told you that the terms of your sentence have been completed. He did the rest. You were simply protected by the blood. You don’t understand it. It is complicated. Understanding wasn’t part of terms. Obedience was the only thing required for your release.