Makin' Matzah Memories

Matzah.....eat it and remember!

Matzah.....it’s what’s for dinner tonight! LOL! Seriously though, it’s what’s on the Biblical menu. As we follow in the steps of Messiah Yeshua, we eat matzah, a simple mixture of flour, and water or oil, to observe our Father’s springtime Feast of Unleavened Bread. On God’s calendar, the springtime is to be observed as the beginning of our year. It is a time of memorializing God’s great salvation. It’s the time of year for celebrating God’s mighty hand in redeeming us from the bondage of slavery to sin and death.

In the Father's feasts we rehearse the Good News of God's Salvaton!

This is the season for new beginnings. It’s the time for getting the “leaven of sin” out of our lives. It’s the time of year to “spring clean” our hearts and lives. With physical reminders of taste, touch, smelling, hearing and seeing, God our Father, in His great wisdom, teaches us as His children, powerful and memorable spiritual lessons. 1 Corinthians 5:7-8

In instructing us to eat unleavened bread, our Father is showing us that we, who are redeemed, are to take on a new sinless life. Through the power of the risen Messiah living through us, we are to rid ourselves from the corrupting influence of sin. Matzah, with its “bruises, piercings and stripes” reminds us of Yeshua, our sinless Savior, who took upon Himself a torturous death that we sinners deserved. He paid the penalty that was ours to pay with His death upon the tree, so that we might truly live through Him in His resurrection power!

The gospel in color  

For the second year in a row, "makin’ matzah" has proved to be for me, a sweet memorial that marks the Feast of Unleavened Bread. It was an activity that I learned from a friend last year, and now I am struck once again with gratitude to our Father for the appointed feast days that He calls us to come and commemorate with Him. I love that He gives us these opportunities to celebrate, remember, and experience His presence in our lives. I love that His feast days are special times for us to remember His great redemption in the past and His great redemption that is yet to come.

The Wordless Book

In preparing a recent batch, one of my matzahs came out looking a bit like a heart! I had already planned on a sweet treat with melted chocolate chips and sliced strawberries, but as I prepared a meaningful song from my past whisked across my mind. The Wordless Book Song tells the gospel message with colors and it motivated me to sprinkle on some powdered sugar and add a sprig of mint from the garden to make my little matzahs speak the song in color.  

The Wordless Book Song - Click to listen 

In makin' memories with my chocolate & strawberry-topped matzah, here is how I saw the gospel in color..... 

Dark Chocolate - represents our sin

Strawberries - reminded me of Yeshua's heart of love and His sacrificial blood poured out for us.

Powdered sugar as white as snow - to represent that God has forgiven us and washed away our sin, giving us new life in Messiah Yeshua.

Golden crust of the matzah - reminded me of the heavenly city of God with streets of gold.

Green mint sprig - a symbol of growing in Yeshua.

Celebrate the feast with bread un-leaven. 

You can buy it in the store or make it in your oven.

The recipe is simple. It contains no yeast. 

It takes a bit of effort, but I think you will be pleased.

Just mix the dough and kneed it, and roll it out flat. 

Then use your fork to prick it with a tap, tap, tap.

Then quickly, oh so quickly, ‘cause you cannot let it rise, 

pop in your hot oven, and soon you’ll have your prize.

Eat it and remember, with grateful jubilee, 

that our sinless Savior died and bled

for the sins of you and me.

‘Cause we were bound like Israel, 

in our sin and slavery, 

but our Redeemer rescued us

so we have been set free! 

Yes, we are free indeed!