Day 19: Exodus 7-9
Main People:
Moses, Aaron, Pharaoh,
Magicians
Key Points:
*Why do you
think God made Pharaoh’s heart hard?
*We started
reading about the plagues/signs in these chapters. God made Moses’s staff turn
into a serpant and the river to blood…. Strangely (something I never caught
before) the magicians could turn the water to blood too… how do you think that
happened? (because I’m curious.)
*Then more
plagues started:
- First, blood. The fish died, river
smelled, and people were without water.
- Frogs (yuck!): Frogs completely
covered the land. I would have had a panic attack… The magicians could
make frogs do that too..
- Gnats: All the dust became gnats.
Eww… ewww… ewww
- Flies: (which I assume would be
just as bad or worse than gnats): Swarms covered everything. It would be
like a picnic on steroids! You couldn’t sleep at night without flies
flying down your throat!
(Rest
will be in tomorrow’s reading… Are you still reading?)
Verses that Jumped Out at Me:
The big verse
that stood out to me was Exodus 8:10. The frogs were horrible, people were
miserable, Moses had promised to get rid of them since Pharaoh had agreed to
let them go (for the time being), and what did Pharaoh say… “Do it tomorrow.”
Are you kidding
me?
BUT we are the
same way I think. We have burdens, and for some reason we just want to keep
carrying them around. God wants to get rid of them for us, but we tell him, “Do
it tomorrow.” And we wallow in it ‘Today’. Don’t let yesterday’s failures and tomorrow’s ‘maybe’s
keep you from today’s blessings J
Question:
Which plague
of the ones we’ve read about would you hate to live through the worst? I’m
thinking blood for myself because… eww… But frogs would be a close second.
Tomorrow’s Reading: Exodus 10-12
*To find the reading plan I’m doing,
click on the “Our Reading
*On January 31st, I’ll have
a giveaway (I’m doing this at the end of every month). It will have to do with
the reading (so I hope you’re keeping up ;) ) This month’s prize is an ebook
copy of my book CROSSING THE DEEP and a $5 Amazon Gift Card
~Kelly
I Think God made Pharaohs heart hard because well God never lets anything Go easy. I believe he was doing it to test the Faith of Moses. To See if Moses would have enough Faith to go all the way. But as we know this certainly wasn't the last time he did test him.
ReplyDeleteThe plaque I could not have lived with is Flies. I HATE FLIES and Gnats are a close second.
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Mike
Praytogodtoday.blogspot.ca