Pharaoh’s first resort when challenged to free the Israelites was to go home and ignore Moses and Aaron. When that didn’t work, he treated the plagues as a contest. He sent his magicians to imitate the plagues. Sometimes that would work, and he would continue resisting God’s will. The LORD purposely chose the plagues to attack things that the Egyptians prided themselves in: the Nile, the soil. The most revered gods of Egypt were thought to control these spheres.
LORD, we surrender to you those areas of our lives we are apt to to think we control.
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