Today’s text is addressed to believers... - All The Good Seed Daily Devotionals for 2026

Purge out the old leaven . For Christ, our Passover, was sacrificed for us. Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, nor with the leaven of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.
1 Corinthians 5:7.8

Today's text is addressed to believers, i.e. to all who have laid claim to the atoning blood of the Lord Jesus shed for us. We can truly say from the heart with the apostle Paul: "Christ, our Passover, was sacrificed for us."

As the Israelites in Egypt once applied the blood of the Passover lamb to the doorposts and lintel of their houses to remain spared from God's judgment, so do we stand under the protection of the blood of Christ. That is the work of God; we can contribute nothing to it. The wording: "Purge out the old leaven" is significant. It was a requirement for the feast of unleavened bread that any leaven should be removed from the Israelites' houses. This is also necessary in our life. Practical holiness and separation from sin must make our life a "feast" that glorifies God. That is up to us.

Old leaven in a believer's life is an earnest matter. If there are old habits or occurrences from the past that have not been "purged out", i.e. confessed and judged before God, or maybe tendencies that we have not condemned in our heart, there will be consequences. We shall be powerless in face of the temptations of life. We shall lack joy in the Lord and His Word, our much needed food. Above all, our life will fail to glorify Him. How do we stand with regard to this?