Transition party time

Monday March 19th, Joshua 5: 10 On the evening of the fourteenth day of the month, while camped at Gilgal on the plains of Jericho, the Israelites celebrated the Passover. 11 The day after the Passover, that very day, they ate some of the produce of the land: unleavened bread and roasted grain. 12 The manna stopped the day after they ate this food from the land; there was no longer any manna for the Israelites, but that year they ate of the produce of Canaan. After 40 years in the wilderness and the “men of war that came forth out of Egypt, perished, because they did not hearken the voice of the Lord,” a new beginning was about to take place. All the men born in the wilderness were circumcised at Gilgal and after a time of healing, all celebrated the Passover, the deliverance from bondage. No longer did the Lord hand feed them the manna, but they were able to experience gift of a new life that lay before them. Transitions from death to life, from bondage to freedom, from what was to what will be, are times of celebration. Worship is a celebration of those transitions.