Today, I am reading and commenting on  Exodus 7-9.

When God sent Moses to Pharaoh He told him that Pharaoh would not listen, even with the mighty signs which God would display.  Nevertheless, Moses was to speak to Pharaoh, he was to tell him that God commanded that he let His people go to worship Him.  We will sometimes face those who similarly wish to keep God’s people from worshiping Him.  God will sometimes send us to speak His message to those who will not listen.  Sometimes, God will increase the power of His signs until those to whom we have been sent listen just to make it stop, even though they still do not believe in God.  But sometimes we are sent to speak to someone like Pharaoh because those around them will see our faith and believe.   We first see this when Pharaoh’s magicians recognized the finger of God in the plague of gnats.  Then later we see some of Pharaoh’s officials believing the word of God during the plague of hail.  They brought their livestock under cover so as to save them from the hail.   In all of today’s passage, Moses and Aaron must have believed that they were failing.  Yet, God had reached some people through the actions He had directed them to take, and He was not finished.  In the same way, we must remain faithful to the task God assigns to us, even when it seems like it is failing.

I use the daily Bible reading schedule from “The Bible.net” for my daily Bible reading.