The Daily Fountain Devotional of the Church Of Nigeria (Anglican Communion) 15 April 2026 – Living An Unleavened Life
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TOPIC: Living An Unleavened Life
READ: Exodus 12:14-22
14 And this day shall be unto you for a memorial; and ye shall keep it a feast to the Lord throughout your generations; ye shall keep it a feast by an ordinance for ever.
15 Seven days shall ye eat unleavened bread; even the first day ye shall put away leaven out of your houses: for whosoever eateth leavened bread from the first day until the seventh day, that soul shall be cut off from Israel.
16 And in the first day there shall be an holy convocation, and in the seventh day there shall be an holy convocation to you; no manner of work shall be done in them, save that which every man must eat, that only may be done of you.
17 And ye shall observe the feast of unleavened bread; for in this selfsame day have I brought your armies out of the land of Egypt: therefore shall ye observe this day in your generations by an ordinance for ever.
18 In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month at even, ye shall eat unleavened bread, until the one and twentieth day of the month at even.
19 Seven days shall there be no leaven found in your houses: for whosoever eateth that which is leavened, even that soul shall be cut off from the congregation of Israel, whether he be a stranger, or born in the land.
20 Ye shall eat nothing leavened; in all your habitations shall ye eat unleavened bread.
21 Then Moses called for all the elders of Israel, and said unto them, Draw out and take you a lamb according to your families, and kill the passover.
22 And ye shall take a bunch of hyssop, and dip it in the blood that is in the bason, and strike the lintel and the two side posts with the blood that is in the bason; and none of you shall go out at the door of his house until the morning.
THE MESSAGE:
God ordained the Passover as a sacred solemn festivity of Unleavened Bread for His people. Unleavened bread is prepared without any rising agent (e. g. yeast); while leavened bread is puffier and less dense. God gave specific instructions for the people – they would have a holy assembly on the first and seventh day; they would observe this festival when they settled in their land as an everlasting ordinance and a memorial to commemorate their release from slavery in Egypt. Only unleavened bread should be taken for those seven days of the Festival. Moses finally instructed the elders to kill the Passover Lamb and mark their door posts and lintel with the blood, so that the destroyer would not enter the marked houses at the sight of the blood.
Spiritually, a leavened life connotes one that is artificial, decked with many beautiful ornaments externally but lacking in spiritual substance (Galatians 5:38; 2 Timothy 3:5). A leavened life is less dense internally but superficially puffed. In the book, The Purpose Driven Life, Pastor Rick Warren exhorts us to go for significance, instead of prominence. He stated that believers are called to be spiritually significant and not necessarily prominent. The Lord will not accept a leavened sacrifice. The call is to present our lives as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God (Romans 12:2). Are you a faithful child of God? Is your life leavened or unleavened?
PRAYER: Lord, purge me of every ‘leaven.’ Make me and mold me in Jesus’ name, Amen.
