Charles Spurgeon Commentary Exodus 12:1-2

"And Jehovah spake unto Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, saying, This month shall be unto you the beginning of months: it shall be the first month of the year to you." — Exodus 12:1-2 (ASV)

And the Lord spake unto Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, saying, This month shall be unto you the beginning of months: it shall be the first month of the year to you.

And for this reason, now, as a nation, they were to begin their separate history, separate in existence from all the rest of mankind.

And the LORD spake unto Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, saying, This month shall be unto you the beginning of months: it shall be the first month of the year to you.

God thinks a great deal of the redemption of his people. When he redeemed them out of their Egyptian bondage, he took care that the mighty deed should be worthily commemorated. From then on, the Jewish year was to begin with the celebration of the national deliverance.

And now, when any of us are converted to God, and so are set free from the slavery of sin, we should reckon that then we really begin to live. All the previous part of our life has been wasted; but when we are brought truly to know God, through faith in our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, then we have realized, indeed, what life is.

The month of our conversion should be to us the beginning of months, the first month of the year to us.