4/14/2008 8:58 AM
SPIRITUAL DIARY
My Worship Time Focus: Pharaoh Threatening
Bible Reading & Meditation Reference: Exodus 10:24-29
Message of the verses: 24
Then Pharaoh called to Moses, and said, "Go, serve the LORD; only
let your flocks and your herds be detained. Even your little ones may go with
you." 25 But Moses said, "You must also let us
have sacrifices and burnt offerings, that we may sacrifice them to the LORD our
God. 26
"Therefore, our livestock too shall go with us; not a hoof shall be
left behind, for we shall take some of them to serve the LORD our God. And
until we arrive there, we ourselves do not know with what we shall serve the
LORD." 27 But the LORD hardened Pharaoh’s heart, and he
was not willing to let them go. 28 Then Pharaoh said to him, "Get away from
me! Beware, do not see my face again, for in the day you see my face you shall
die!" 29 Moses said, "You are right; I shall
never see your face again!”
There are a
number of things worth noting that come from Dr. Wiersbe’s book on Exodus and
are from this section. Dr. Wiersbe
believes that it was a trick by Pharaoh to keep the animals that Israel had
after they left and then send his army to get the children of Israel back, but
Moses and Aaron did not fall for this for they believed the promises of God,
that He would defeat Egypt and Israel would then go on to the promised land.
The next
interesting things Dr. Wiersbe says about these verses is that he believes there
was a chapter division that should not have been there when chapter divisions
were made. I am not sure what would have
happened to verse twenty-nine if this were true, but I suppose this theory of
Dr. Wiersbe makes more sense than what is seen in these verses. Pharaoh tells Moses, after Moses turns down
his offer, that he will never see him again under penalty of death, but he will
see Moses again after the plague of the first born of Egypt Egypt
Pharaoh was a
very proud man and pride is a big problem to have and pride was what got
Pharaoh in trouble and what eventually caused his death in the Red Sea . Pharaoh
believed that he descended from the gods, and was a god himself and because of
this he could not allow two slaves conquer him and his nation and thus his
pride caused his heart to become harder and harder. The next time his heart became hard would be
the last for that hardness would cause him to go after Israel
Spiritual meaning for my life today: If an unbeliever continues to harden his
heart toward the things of the Lord then it can cause him to not accept the
free gift that God desires to give him and thus end up in an eternity away from
God, the second death. If I as a
believer harden my heart toward the things that the Lord is calling me to do I
believe that two things could happen to me, one is discipline from the Lord for
whom the Lord loves He has to discipline from time to time. If my heart continues to be heard then the
Lord may take me to heaven as Paul speaks of in First Corinthians.
My Steps of Faith for Today:
I desire to yoke up with the Lord Jesus Christ today for there are many
problems that I face today and He promises:
“ 28 "Come to Me, all who are weary and
heavy-laden, and I will give you rest.
"Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and
humble in heart, and YOU WILL FIND REST FOR YOUR SOULS. "For My yoke is easy and My burden is
light.”
Memory verses for the week: Philippians
3:7-8
- But whatever things were gain to me, those things I have counted as loss for the sake of Christ.
- More than that, I count all things to be loss in view of the surpassing value of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and count them but rubbish so that I may gain Christ.
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