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There was something totally crazy I noticed here. When
God had Moses do something, the Egyptian priests tried and at first succeeded in doing the same things, even though it was always to their detriment!
Who would want a
snake running around loose inside their home?
God turned Aaron’s rod into a snake.
Instead of running, the
Egyptian priests decided they could match it, and “created” a second
snake! Now there were two slithering through the palace!
When God turned all the water in Egypt to blood and the
people had no water to drink, they dug fresh wells beside the Nile to get fresh
water, and the Egyptian priests quickly turned it into blood, again to everyone’s
detriment!! It happened a third time
with the frogs! They were so concerned
about being one-upped that nothing else mattered. You’d think the king would have been
screaming at them, saying, “Are you CRAZY???!!!” But hardened hearts do very crazy things –
irrational things, even to their own
detriment.
My commentary described a hardened heart: “It means to see clear evidence of the hand
of God at work and still refuse to
accept His Word and submit to His
will. It means to resist Him by showing
ingratitude and disobedience and not having any fear of the Lord or of His
judgments. Hardhearted people say with
Pharaoh, “Who is the Lord that I should obey His voice?” It also said, “If we walk contrary to Him, He will walk contrary to us.”
Pharaoh even tried to bargain
with God – to negotiate the will of God. “Once we start to negotiate the will of God
and see how close we can get to the world, we have already disobeyed Him in our hearts,” it added.
Father, hardheartedness is such a terrible thing. It causes us to fail to realize that every
decision we make is against ourselves! How stupid is that! Please break hardheartedness and cause us to
again seek after You. When we turn
around, bless us richly so we’ll know
You are God.
Your Brother In Christ,
Gary Ford
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