Celebrating Joyfully Another Week
In our culture we celebrate all kinds of things by having festivals that can last several days or even a week. We have festivals named for flowers, like the Dogwood festival or the Yellow Daisy Festival. Some places have Renaissance Festivals where they do Medieval activities. Of course, there are festivals to celebrate Spring and Fall. People turn out to have a good time together and to celebrate. However, are those things really the most important things in life to celebrate? King Hezekiah led the people of Judah back to the Lord, reopened the Temple, and celebrated the Passover meal and the Feast of Unleavened bread for the first time in a long time. This celebration usually lasted one week, during which the people celebrated their deliverance from Egyptian bondage. (II Chronicles 30:23) "The entire assembly then decided to continue the festival another seven days so they celebrated joyfully for another week." I wonder if believers today would ever set aside two weeks of...