Exodus 23:14–19
The Bible4Jesus.com Podcast
About this episode
We live in a secular age that is desperately trying to escape from time. Our culture wants an endless weekend, a perpetual holiday from responsibility. It wants to flatten time into a meaningless, uniform stretch of moments, each one as insignificant as the last. But this is a rebellion against the way God made the world. God is the Lord of time, and He has built a rhythm into the fabric of creation itself. This is a liturgical calendar, a calendar of feasts. And we must understand that this is not a list of suggestions for how to have a good time. God did not deliver Israel from the grinding, meaningless slavery of Egypt just to turn them loose in the wilderness to invent their own meaning. He did not free them from Pharaoh's brickyards so they could establish their own autonomous schedules.