Good morning guys, welcome to today.
Today is a great day and I woke up with a cheerful heart. God is good to all, whether good or bad.
All of God’s interactions with Pharaoh and the Egyptian people(Exodus 7:8-13) were to prove to them that He was God and God alone. From the very first throw down of Aaron’s rod to the last drop of water falling after the parting of the Red Sea, everything was done with the specific purpose of showing the authority and superiority of God Almighty.
The Egyptians had their own culture with their own gods and traditions. Maybe we think of idol worship as an ancient practice that no longer applies to us in the 21 Century, yet we still lift up superstitions and falsehoods as our guides and leadership. We may not bow down to tiny gold statues, but we bow down to the opinions of social media giants. We worship ‘science’ above reason or even conflicting scientific findings. We offer sacrifices to climate change as if the planet had not been changing since the beginning. We devote ourselves to the pursuit of money, sex, and popularity as if those things truly controlled our future. Like the ancient Egyptians, we are wasting our time worshiping what truly has no power or control. Science changes with each discovery. God and His word are eternally steadfast. Climates change at a single word from its Creator. Money can become worthless in the length of time it takes another country to overrun your own, or inflation to take away its value. Sex can never satisfy the deep longing we have to be loved by our God, and popularity is as fickle as one single ill-worded post. The only constant is God.
The first miracle that God performed through Moses and Aaron in Pharaoh’s presence may be overshadowed by the more often remembered 10 plagues, but it might be the most important of them all. Aaron threw his rod to the ground. Immediately, the rod became a snake. However, Pharaoh’s magicians quickly replicated the miracle. Then, Aaron’s rod swallowed up their rods. This often-overlooked event would have made the Egyptian people begin to doubt and tremble. You see, the serpent was the symbol of their goddess, Wadjet, who protected the land and guided the royalty of Egypt. It was used as part of Pharaoh’s headdress to remind the people that he (or she) was personally protected and guided by a ‘god’. Yet, the Egyptian’s symbol of their god was quickly and easily devoured by the Israelite’s.
God rules all… even the wicked. He cannot be supplanted. He cannot be controlled. There is none more powerful, and the Egyptians were just about to discover just how true that was.
I am the Lord, and there is no other, besides me there is no God; I gird you, though you do not know me, that men may know, from the rising of the sun and from the west, that there is none besides me: I am the Lord, and there is no other.(Isaiah 45:5-6)
Do not fear the idols of men. Do not worship their lies. God alone controls the rising of the sun and setting of the same.
INDEED, GOD IS GOOD TO ALL