Week 39, Day 4: The signs continue

Today’s Reading:  Exodus 8:1-32

Some thoughts from the reading…

God continues to “convince” Pharaoh that he needs to heed His commands by sending additional signs.  We refer to the signs as plagues because of how they afflicted Egypt.  These were not only miraculous events brought about but were also designed to inflict some level of annoyance to Pharaoh and his people.  Alright, you want to be stubborn, here is something to help you think about what you have decided to do.  Frogs everywhere.  In your bed, in your ovens, in your kneading bowls, in your houses and on you.  Lice or gnats all over everything.  Flies all over everything.  It would be enough to drive you crazy.  If you have every stepped into a swarm of little gnats and had them all in your face, you can imagine how annoying and frustrating it would be to not be able to get away from them. 

We see again that the magicians were able to imitate the sign of the frogs.  But when it came to the gnats the magicians were not able to repeat this.  They have now been convinced this is the work of God.   Slowly but surely the Egyptians are beginning to yield and admit that they must submit to God.  Pharaoh begins to go back and forth.  He begins to try to bargain to let Israel worship God but wants to negotiate what they will be allowed to do. 

Question:  What signs would have to be performed before we would obey God’s command?  Can you think of a time where you had a hard time accepting or doing a command from God because you believed differently or grew up thinking something different.  What did it take before you yielded to God’s will?

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