Day 48- Exodus 12-13; Psalm 8

In this chapter we learn about Passover.  And Henry notes,

Note, It is good to begin the day, and begin the year, and especially to begin our lives, with God. 

I suggest to you that I have just completed at least two of these tasks, and so have you.

I think this note from Henry has been my direction this year and the end of last year,

Note, When our heads are fullest of care, and our hands of business, yet we must not forget our religion, nor suffer ourselves to be indisposed for acts of devotion.

Exodus 13 focuses on passing along God's words.  Henry summarizes, 

Note, (1.) Care must be taken betimes to instruct children in the knowledge of God. Here is an ancient law for catechising. (2.) It is particularly of great use to acquaint children betimes with the stories of the scripture, and to make them familiar to them. (3.) It is a debt we owe to the honour of God, and to the benefit of our children’s souls, to tell them of the great works God has done for his church, both those which we have seen with our eyes done in our day and which we have heard with our ears and our fathers have told us: Thou shalt show thy son in that day (the day of the feast) these things. When they were celebrating the ordinance, they must explain it. Every thing is beautiful in its season. The passover is appointed for a sign, and for a memorial, that the Lord’s law may be in thy mouth. Note, We must retain the remembrance of God’s works, that we may remain under the influence of God’s law. And those that have God’s law in their heart should have it in their mouth, and be often speaking of it, the more to affect themselves and to instruct others.

This is more difficult to do then we care to acknowledge and making it a priority is difficult.  I hope to focus more on this as I move forward.

As for the Psalm, Henry describes,

This psalm is a solemn meditation on, and admiration of, the glory and greatness of God, of which we are all concerned to think highly and honourably. It begins and ends with the same acknowledgment of the transcendent excellency of God’s name. It is proposed for proof (v. 1) that God’s name is excellent in all the earth, and then it is repeated as proved (with a "quod erat demonstrandum’’—which was to be demonstrated) in the last verse. For the proof of God’s glory the psalmist gives instances of his goodness to man; for God’s goodness is his glory.

I think that says it all.  See you tomorrow.