Are we present day Pharaohs?
Dear Diary, Okay...so here I am studying the book of Exodus, and I came to the realization that there are a lot of present-day Pharaohs. I find that rather unsettling, and we all need to do better - beginning with us Christians. “Present-day Pharaohs” - yeah, you must be wondering what I meant by that. Well, present-day Pharaohs are those people who call on God when things get difficult and even go to the length of making promises to God. Crazy right? I am not finished yet. They make promises, and as soon as they begin to see a break in the cloud, they go back to their old ways and forget about the promises that were made. Is it a matter of forgetting, or is it that they do not care? I hear a lot of “YOLO” these days. Let me give you more context. In Exodus 8, frogs were all over the land of Egypt because Pharaoh hardened his heart and refused to let the people of Israel go. Frogs were here, there, and everywhere. Just try and picture that for a moment... The visualization ...