Celebrating Something New...
Dear Friends,
Is your weather “In like a lion and out like a lamb?” Or reverse? Over the past years at Skye Moor Farm, we’ve already had a little of both! Sometimes we begin lambing in March, and the lambs are freezing in lion-like wind and weather. Last year, when the sheep were sheared early, they looked like a shivering flock of goats without their wooly fleece,
Since this Easter comes in March, as actors in our annual outdoor Passion play, we’ll be shivering in thin robes and sandals as the wind whips over the Blue Ridge Mountains. We’ll probably celebrate the arrival of the Lamb of God in lion-like weather.
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Lambing and Easter have become synonymous at our home. I remember coming home from one Easter service to see two brand new white lambs in our backyard. My little girls, in their white Battenberg lace Easter dresses, ran out to meet the new babies. Our lambs are usually born in the muddy fields or on the earthen floor of the barn, but my husband Will had put the pregnant ewe in our backyard. So when she delivered her twins, they were spotless.
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They reminded me of Jesus, our spotless lamb. He rode into Jerusalem with all the lambs on lamb selection day, the Sunday prior to Passover, when each family chose a perfect lamb for the Passover sacrifice. God’s timing was deliberate. Jesus entered Jerusalem with the chosen Passover lambs because He is the Perfect Lamb chosen by God.
This March let’s celebrate the Perfect Lamb of God (John 1:29) coming in and
Who goes out —the Lion of Judah!
“Do not weep! See, the Lion of the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, has triumphed. (Revelations 5:5)
Names of Jesus
Lamb of God and Lion of Judah are both names for Jesus as well as Wonderful, Counselor, Almighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace! (Isaiah 9:6) In Revelation, we see He is also the Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the Root and Offspring of David, and the bright Morning Star. (Rev. 22:13, 16).
God says I AM WHO I AM. (Exodus 3:14-15) For further study this Lent, why not spend some time looking at the seven I Ams Jesus claimed in John.
I am the bread of life. (John 6:35, John 6:51)
I am the light of the world. (John 8:12)
I am the gate for the sheep. (John 10:7, 9)
I am the good shepherd. (John 10:11, 14-15)
I am the resurrection and the life. (John 11:25)
I am the way and the truth and the life. (John 14:6)
I am the true vine, and my Father is the gardener. (John 15:1,5)
Since Jesus is the ________________what does that mean for you?
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