Every year, now, for a while, my family has set aside a time when we go out to eat together and celebrate God’s provision in the previous year. We began to do this after my Dad read and meditated on this passage from Deuteronomy 14.

22 “You shall tithe all the yield of your seed that comes from the field year by year. 23 And before the Lord your God, in the place that he will choose, to make his name dwell there, you shall eat the tithe of your grain, of your wine, and of your oil, and the firstborn of your herd and flock, that you may learn to fear the Lord your God always. 24 And if the way is too long for you, so that you are not able to carry the tithe, when the Lord your God blesses you, because the place is too far from you, which the Lord your God chooses, to set his name there, 25 then you shall turn it into money and bind up the money in your hand and go to the place that the Lord your God chooses 26 and spend the money for whatever you desire—oxen or sheep or wine or strong drink, whatever your appetite craves. And you shall eat there before the Lord your God and rejoice, you and your household.”  (ESV)

Although it is not necessary to keep the distinct instructions of this law (after Jesus kept and fulfilled the entire law through His life and death), the law still teaches us what pleases God. By the law, we recognize in what God delights, so we can know how shape our worship and lives. This, what our family attempts to observe, focuses our minds on the goodness of God.

I appreciate the effort that my Dad has made to deliberately focus our families eyes on God through our family taditions. Here is a post from my family blog which briefly recounts this years feast in my Dad’s words.

Annual Feast to Praise God 2010

this is “grace at work”

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