Prepare: Create in me an awareness of Your awesome presence O Lord, that I may respond correctly to Your Word.
Read: Exodus 9:27-10:6
After World War II, the western colonial powers started losing their colonies one by one. Some of these colonies became independent only after fighting against the colonial powers. The economic exploitation they were enjoying in the colonies stood in the way of the colonisers to grant independence to the colonised.
It is a similar struggle in Egypt. Who will work for them? It is not easy for the ruler to let the people go. Pharaoh struggles to decide aright and in the process his heart gets hardened.
There are three lessons for us in today's passage.
Avoid dubious confession: In the words of Pharaoh there is no sincerity (9:27). He displays a shallow understanding of sin. God delights in truth in the inward being (Psalm 51:6). Let our moments of confession be acceptable to God.
Adhere to sincere admonition: The Lord directs Moses and Aaron to instruct the younger generations later on to be faithful to Him. He is Almighty God who saves and preserves His people (10:1,2).
Accept every serious warning: Moses and Aaron give the Egyptians a serious warning from the Lord. This time it is going to be invasion by locusts in huge numbers bringing great devastation to their agricultural life. Will Pharaoh remember the famine that ravaged Egypt for seven years and how Joseph saved the nations from total destruction? As a result, will he be sympathetic to the Hebrews? No, he fails again.
Respond: Make me sincere in all my attempts to love and obey You, Lord.
Read: Exodus 9:27-10:6
After World War II, the western colonial powers started losing their colonies one by one. Some of these colonies became independent only after fighting against the colonial powers. The economic exploitation they were enjoying in the colonies stood in the way of the colonisers to grant independence to the colonised.
It is a similar struggle in Egypt. Who will work for them? It is not easy for the ruler to let the people go. Pharaoh struggles to decide aright and in the process his heart gets hardened.
There are three lessons for us in today's passage.
Avoid dubious confession: In the words of Pharaoh there is no sincerity (9:27). He displays a shallow understanding of sin. God delights in truth in the inward being (Psalm 51:6). Let our moments of confession be acceptable to God.
Adhere to sincere admonition: The Lord directs Moses and Aaron to instruct the younger generations later on to be faithful to Him. He is Almighty God who saves and preserves His people (10:1,2).
Accept every serious warning: Moses and Aaron give the Egyptians a serious warning from the Lord. This time it is going to be invasion by locusts in huge numbers bringing great devastation to their agricultural life. Will Pharaoh remember the famine that ravaged Egypt for seven years and how Joseph saved the nations from total destruction? As a result, will he be sympathetic to the Hebrews? No, he fails again.
Respond: Make me sincere in all my attempts to love and obey You, Lord.
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