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Exodus 10 – Struggle

If things weren’t deep and passionate before, there is a whole lot of that going on now!  The plagues keep getting more and more intense and powerful, and Pharaoh’s frustration and anger are getting worse and worse.

Pharaoh is doing everything he can to attempt to delay or stop the inevitable, but he just can’t stop YHWH.  I kind of feel bad for the guy.  But at the same time, i know why this is happening, and his involvement / responsibility in it.  It’s kind of like working with troubled youth.  Sometimes the only way they learn is to allow them to learn and understand the consequences of their actions.  Explaining it to them, processing it with them and protecting them from it can only get you so far.  Sometimes you just need to let them see, and until they see they will not understand.

You can see Pharaoh’s will / resolve start to soften in this chapter, but Pharaoh is not a man to change easily or lightly.  Nor is he a man likely to accept defeat.  God continues to harden an already hard heart.  Pharaoh continues to attempt to compromise with God, but the cost of that compromise is much higher than the cost of the original price.

How do you help a man who is so insistent that he wins, that he is willing to destroy himself and everything around him in order to do so?  How do you open the eyes of a man so blinded by his own pride and rebellion that he thinks he can stand against God?  What drives a man to become what you see before you?  Yes, God hardened Pharaoh’s heart, and yes, God had every right to do that!  But the truth is, He didn’t need to.  Pharaoh was so intent on doing it to himself that he did not need any real help from God.

How do help a man like that?


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