The Lord is awe-inspiring, fearsome, fascinating, intriguing, majestic, and full of splendor: breathtaking! Here is what I saw of him today and what came to my heart and mind in Exodus 10:1-2,
"Then the Lord said to Moses, 'Go to Pharaoh, for I have hardened his heart and the hearts of his officials so that I may perform these signs of mine among them that you may tell your children and grandchildren how I dealt harshly with the Egyptians and how I performed my signs among them, and that you may know that I am the Lord.'"
How many people do suppose know that God both turned the Egyptians against his own people, and also, at the same time, hardened their hearts to keep them from letting Israel leave?
We read in Psalm 105:23-25, "Then Israel entered Egypt; Jacob resided as a foreigner in the land of Ham. The Lord made his people very fruitful; he made them too numerous for their foes, whose hearts he turned to hate his people, to conspire against his servants." Then, as we see in Exodus 10:1-2, the Lord hardened Pharaoh's heart so that the Egyptians wouldn't allow the Israelites to go while having Moses demand their leave of Egypt.
"Then the Lord said to Moses, 'Go to Pharaoh, for I have hardened his heart and the hearts of his officials so that I may perform these signs of mine among them that you may tell your children and grandchildren how I dealt harshly with the Egyptians and how I performed my signs among them, and that you may know that I am the Lord.'"
How many people do suppose know that God both turned the Egyptians against his own people, and also, at the same time, hardened their hearts to keep them from letting Israel leave?
We read in Psalm 105:23-25, "Then Israel entered Egypt; Jacob resided as a foreigner in the land of Ham. The Lord made his people very fruitful; he made them too numerous for their foes, whose hearts he turned to hate his people, to conspire against his servants." Then, as we see in Exodus 10:1-2, the Lord hardened Pharaoh's heart so that the Egyptians wouldn't allow the Israelites to go while having Moses demand their leave of Egypt.
The Lord created a "pressure cooker" of a circumstance that accomplished several things. In this passage we read that an outcome would be that generations of Hebrews would recognize that the Lord both performed signs for them and also to know that he was, in fact, the Lord. In Exodus 9:14 we read that the Lord was creating a situation that would result in Egypt understanding that there is simply on one like the Lord in all the earth. In the following verse we read that this pressure cooker was designed that the Lord might have an opportunity to display his power and in Exodus 9:16, that his name "might be proclaimed in all the earth."
The situation the Lord created between the Israelites and Egyptians helps us to understand just how it is that God can and does accomplish many things at one time and how it can be when he works among mankind to accomplish his purposes.
Anything of the Lord capture your heart from Scripture today? Share what moved you about him from your Bible reading today. I'd love to hear from you!
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Anything of the Lord capture your heart from Scripture today? Share what moved you about him from your Bible reading today. I'd love to hear from you!
If you have someone you would like to receive these ruminations, send me their email address. I'm happy to add them to the list. If you are receiving this and would like to be removed from the list, just reply and let me know. A blog with all my posts can be found here: http://worshipfortoday.blogspot.com/
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