Frogs (Ex. 8:1-7)

3/28/2008 9:11 AM
SPIRITUAL DIARY
My Worship Time  Focus:  Plague #3:  Frogs
Bible Reading & Meditation  Reference:  Exodus 8:1-7
 Message of the verses:  “1 ¶  Then the LORD said to Moses, "Go to Pharaoh and say to him, ‘Thus says the LORD, "Let My people go, that they may serve Me.  2  "But if you refuse to let them go, behold, I will smite your whole territory with frogs.
3  "The Nile will swarm with frogs, which will come up and go into your house and into your bedroom and on your bed, and into the houses of your servants and on your people, and into your ovens and into your kneading bowls.  4  "So the frogs will come up on you and your people and all your servants."’"  5  Then the LORD said to Moses, "Say to Aaron, ‘Stretch out your hand with your staff over the rivers, over the streams and over the pools, and make frogs come up on the land of Egypt.’"
6  So Aaron stretched out his hand over the waters of Egypt, and the frogs came up and covered the land of Egypt.  7  The magicians did the same with their secret arts, making frogs come up on the land of Egypt.”
 Whenever the Ten Commandments were given to Moses the first one spoke of not having any other God other than the God of Israel as their God.  All of these plagues and also the sign of the rod turning into a snake were against the gods of the Egyptians.  “In Egypt the frog was a fertility symbol; and Heqet, the goddess of resurrection, fertility, and childbirth, had the head of a frog.”
 God told Moses to tell Pharaoh that if he did not let His people go that there would be frogs everywhere, including in their bedrooms and even in their beds, but of course Pharaoh’s heart was hard and he did not let God’s people go and so came the frogs.  Again the magicians duplicated this plague, but again the magicians could not make the frogs go away so in the end Pharaoh would have to call Moses to rid the land of frogs. 
 Spiritual meaning for my life today:  All of these plagues teach me that I am not to have any idols in my life, for these plagues were directed against the false gods or idols that Egypt worshiped.  An idol is something that comes between me and the worship of God and nothing is to come between my worship of God.
My Steps of Faith for Today:  I want to continue to trust the Lord to teach me contentment, to trust the Lord to teach my wife contentment, and to trust the Lord in our job situation and in or investment situation with Andrew Lech.
Memory verses for the week:  2Cor. 12:9-10
9. And He said to me, “My grace is sufficient to you, for power is perfected in weakness.”  Most gladly, therefore, I will rather boast about my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may dwell in me.
10. Therefore I am well content with weakness, with insults, with distresses, with persecutions, with difficulties, for Christ’s sake; so that when I am weak, then I am strong.