Rosh Hashanah

 It's a new season. It's a new day. The head of the Jewish New Year 5781 begins tonight at sundown. Rosh Hashanah, also known as The Feast of Trumpets, ends Sunday at sundown. Thus the Fall Feasts have begun. 

Followed by Yom Kippur Sept. 27-28 and Sukkot Oct. 2-Oct.9, Rosh Hashanah leads us into the ten days of awe between it and The Day of Atonement (Yom Kippur). The fall feasts culminate with a week of tabernacle - ing with God during The Feast of Tabernacles (Sukkot). These days are an ideal time for worship, heart examination, and repentance. Time spent with God seems a beautiful way to begin a new season.

Many view the fall feasts as Jewish feasts, but according to the Bible, they are God's feasts, specific seasons established by Him to be held every year. In the middle of tumultuous times let us be intentionally deliberate in remembering God's instructions to meet with Him and feast upon His goodness. May we ever be focused on Him and His gift of love, Jesus, above all. As we begin a new year in His presence may we never cease to thank Him for Jesus, His gift of extravagant Love.

"For God so loved the world that He gave..." John 3:16a