Ten Plagues

Exodus 6:28-11:10

Here Moses says what is true: He says I am a man of uncircumcised lips. It is a different excuse from yesterday. This seems to get at the heart of it. We can never do what the Lord says on our own or of our own purity. God listens to this and is not angry; He says I will send Aaron with you and you will speak all that I tell you. Do only what I tell you.

How many signs and wonders do we see among us? How many times do we, like Pharaoh harden our hearts?

The Lord says "Let my people go, that they may serve me." Do we see freedom as a gift in order that we might serve God? Or do we, like Pharaoh see it for our own purpose?

"Then the Lord said to Moses, "Go in to Pharaoh, for I have hardened his heart and the heart of his servants, that I may show these signs of mine among them, and that you may tell in the hearing of your son and of your grandson how I have dealt harshly with the Egyptians and what signs I have done among them, that you may know that I am the Lord."

Do we remember to tell the signs to our children and to their children so that they may know of the good that the Lord has done for us?

The Ninth Plague is darkness for three days, yet the Israelites were not in darkness. Do we have eyes to see in the darkness? In each case the Lord told them what He was going to do, before He did it, in order that they might know it was the Lord. Reading the Lord's word gives us the ability to recognize God's hand at work. Would that I would pay attention to the Lord's work in the world around me.

See you tomorrow
-maggie