Remember What God Did
Day 47 · Exodus 12:26-27
📖 TODAY’S SCRIPTURE
Exodus 12:26-27 (NIV)
“And when your children ask you, ‘What does this ceremony mean to you?’ then tell them, ‘It is the Passover sacrifice to the Lord, who passed over the houses of the Israelites in Egypt and spared our homes when he struck down the Egyptians.'”
Today’s John 15 thread: The Vine produces fruit that lasts, and part of what lasts is the story we pass on. The Passover was designed so that the next generation could hear what God did. We share the story so others can know the Vine. Remembrance is not nostalgia. It’s worship, and it’s the way faith moves from one generation to the next.
✍️ REFLECTION
The Passover was not just something God did once and left behind. He built a ceremony around it. He told the people to eat this meal in a specific way, to remember it every year, and to be ready to explain it to their children when they asked. Because they would ask. And when they did, the parents were not to say: “It’s just a tradition.” They were to say: “God passed over our houses. He spared us. He brought us out of Egypt.” They were to make the story live again in the telling.
Q1: Do you have a ‘Passover story’, something God brought you out of or through that you regularly remember and celebrate? When did you last tell that story to someone?
Without intentional remembrance, the most extraordinary things God has done can become background noise. We stop being moved by what He did. We start taking it for granted. And when the next hard thing comes, we forget that He was faithful before. That’s why the Israelites were commanded to do this every year, not because God needed the recognition, but because they needed the reminder.
Q2: Is there something God has done for you that you have stopped celebrating, something that used to move you but has become normal? What would it look like to intentionally remember it again?
The verse says the people bowed down and worshipped when Moses told them what God was going to do, and they did that even before they saw it. That is the power of a community of people who carry the story. When Moses tells them that God is going to save them they believe it, because they already know what kind of God they are dealing with. They have heard the stories and they know He is faithful. What we remember shapes what we believe, and what we celebrate shapes what we expect.
Q3: Who are the young people in your life, your children, younger friends, people you lead, who need to hear your story of what God has done? What is the story you need to pass on?
🌿 REMAIN IN HIM
Take a moment before you move on. This isn’t a to-do. It’s an invitation to stay.
Reflect honestly: Have you let the memory of what God has done for you grow dim? When did you last sit with gratitude for the specific things He has brought you through?
Bring it to Jesus: Take five minutes today to think through your ‘Passover story’, the things God has brought you out of. Write them down. Say thank you for each one.
Trust the Gardener: The Vine produces fruit that lasts. The story of what God has done through you is part of that lasting fruit. Don’t let it go untold.
🙏 PRAYER
Father, I don’t want to forget what You have done. You brought me out of things I should not have survived. You spared me from things I did not deserve to be spared from. Keep the memory alive in me, not as guilt or as something I owe You, but as a source of genuine gratitude and joy. And help me to tell the story, so others can know that You are faithful. In Jesus’ name, Amen.
💡 MEMORY VERSE
Exodus 12:27 (NIV): “It is the Passover sacrifice to the Lord, who passed over the houses of the Israelites in Egypt and spared our homes.”
This post is part of the Abide in Him Daily devotional series, reading Scripture through the lens of John 15:1–17. The branch doesn’t manufacture the fruit. It bears it because it stays connected to the Vine.
