How long will it be before You question Plagues in Your life

How Long will it be before You question Plagues in Your life
Locusts and questions
Darkness for compromise
DBF/Exodus 10/Sept 22, 2002


Do you ever question why certain things happen in this world, in communities and villages around you?

With the various things of darkness surrounding us, I sometimes wonder why people in the communities don’t question these things more often?

Why don’t our communities confront drug dealers, alcohol importer or people who let intoxicated people go out of their homes or businesses and kill themselves or others?

The simplest reason I guess is that they would not want others pointing out things they do that they know is not right.

I am reminded of a story in which a couple of guys where fishing down a river one day.

One looked up and could see a baby crying and splashing as it floated down the river. The man of course ran in and plucked the baby from that terrible situation. Immediately he heard another baby screaming, looked up and saw another one floating down river. He handed the first child to his friend and waded in after the second. He returned to the bank and was thinking how could this be happening.

He couldn’t wonder very long because he shortly heard another scream and returned to the river to get the next baby, handing each successively to his friend who handed them to another person nearby.

That is pretty much the way I see Satan tying up our lives. He hits us with things that consume our time and efforts to keep us from seeing and doing the word of God.

These people would never get to the root of the problem by staying downstream, they would only be involved in taking actions after the problem presented itself.

God calls us to look to him for the truth, and to examine every situation. In the above situation God would call us to venture upriver, stop whoever is throwing the babies in to start with, then pray that they might come to a point in their lives that they accept their sinfulness and repent of it, turn from their evil past, and seek the path of Christ in their lives.

Today let us continue our journey with Moses and Aaron through the path of plagues that are being brought against the nation of Egypt because of Pharaoh’s refusal to “Let God’s People go.”

Locusts and questions
Exodus 10
1And the LORD said unto Moses, Go in unto Pharaoh: for I have hardened his heart, and the heart of his servants, that I might show these my signs before him: 2And that thou mayest tell in the ears of thy son, and of thy son’s son, what things I have wrought in Egypt, and my signs which I have done among them; that ye may know how that I am the LORD. 3And Moses and Aaron came in unto Pharaoh, and said unto him, Thus saith the LORD God of the Hebrews, How long wilt thou refuse to humble thyself before me? let my people go, that they may serve me. 4Else, if thou refuse to let my people go, behold, to morrow will I bring the locusts into thy coast: 5And they shall cover the face of the earth, that one cannot be able to see the earth: and they shall eat the residue of that which is escaped, which remaineth unto you from the hail, and shall eat every tree which groweth for you out of the field: 6And they shall fill thy houses, and the houses of all thy servants, and the houses of all the Egyptians; which neither thy fathers, nor thy fathers’ fathers have seen, since