Spoken With Love: Week 4 Day 2

Exodus 7:20

Moses and Aaron did just as the Lord had commanded. He raised his staff in the presence of Pharaoh and his officials and struck the water of the Nile, and all the water was changed into blood.

Exodus 8:5

Then the Lord said to Moses, “Tell Aaron, ‘Stretch out your hand with your staff over the streams and canals and ponds, and make frogs come up on the land of Egypt.’”

Exodus 8:16

Then the Lord said to Moses, “Tell Aaron, ‘Stretch out your staff and strike the dust of the ground,’ and throughout the land of Egypt the dust will become gnats.”

Exodus 9:23

When Moses stretched out his staff toward the sky, the Lord sent thunder and hail,and lightning flashed down to the ground. So the Lord rained hail on the land of Egypt;

Exodus 10:13

So Moses stretched out his staff over Egypt, and the Lord made an east wind blow across the land all that day and all that night. By morning the wind had brought the locusts;

God gave Pharaoh TEN chances to let His people go. The chances came in the form of requests and punishments for denying the requests. Ten times God, through Moses, asked for their release. Each time Pharaoh denied them, the Egyptians would suffer a plague. One interesting thing to note is that the plagues all depicted different Egyptian gods. God used Pharaoh’s hard heart to display His power over all false gods. 

By Moses and Aaron (Moses’ brother) visibly initiating the plagues, the people couldn’t call these occurrences coincidences or just natural events. Though God utilized nature, He was Lord over it. Many of the Egyptian gods had forms and powers related to nature. The Egyptian people, like the pagan people around the world, had fallen to worship created things rather than The Creator. Is there any way you have done that in your own life?

Have you worshiped a blessing rather than the One who blessed you?

Have you worshiped health or healing rather than the One who heals?