Celebrate What God Has Done

Leviticus 23:33-44

We have come to our last feast prescribed by the Lord: Feast of Tabernacles or Booths. This was a long celebration meant to remind the Israelites of their sojourn through the wilderness. It is a time of remembrance, a time to celebrate God’s provisions and deliverance. This celebration occurs 5 days after the Day of Atonement. After repenting and receiving God’s forgiveness and grace, we should celebrate! What better time to revel in all that God has done than when we remember our salvation!

I wish we could always be a people who lived within the days of the Feast of Tabernacles. Too often we lose sight of all that God has done in our lives. As I have gotten older, I have learned to depend on gratitude. It completely changes my perspective. It transforms my fears into hope. How could I doubt when God has proven His provision over and over? How can the future not hold certainty when God is secure? When we stop taking time to remember what God has done, we harm ourselves. We allow ourselves to forget that God is powerful. He is capable. When we carve out portions of our day and our life to remember and celebrate the good that God has done, we open our eyes to what He is doing now.

These feasts that God gave His people still speak to us today. They tell us of the certainty of the Lord. Each of the feasts that dealt with Jesus’ first coming was fulfilled on the day of the festival it described. Jesus was killed on the Passover as the sacrificial lamb that caused God’s judgment to pass over our lives. He rose from the dead on the Feast of Firstfruits as the first resurrected to eternity, and Pentecost happened on the Feast of Weeks; the first harvest of redeemed believers occurring on the day God ordained His people to celebrate the harvest. Other feasts point to Jesus’ second coming: the Feast of Trumpets, Atonement, and Tabernacles. Zechariah 14:16-19 mentions the Feast of Tabernacles still being practiced during Christ’s millennial kingdom. Rejoicing with gratitude and acknowledgment of the power of God must continue throughout all generations. When we forget what God has done, we begin to doubt what God will do. Let us never stop rejoicing in the provision and deliverance of our Lord. God caused the water of the Red Sea to stand on end so His people could pass through on dry ground. What possibly could block our way? Romans 8:31 says it beautifully, “If God is for us, who can be against us?”

(Written by Keegan Harkins.)