Friday, January 29, 2021

Disobedience Comes with A Cost

 Exodus 9-10  Psalm 144   Acts 3

As I continued to read about the plagues in Exodus 9 and 10 I note that god hardened Pharaoh’s heart but it was usually the people that suffered. Sometimes God has to show that the cost of disobedience increases and that some effect everyone and some just the disobedient and their people. Each step Pharaoh continues to try to make a deal giving up as little as possible and maintaining control The warning come and then ignored.

Psalm 144 reminds us that God should be praised as all times and that there is nothing about us that is worthy of his notice and yet he blesses us daily.

In Acts 3 Peter and John bring healing from Jesus to a man born unable to walk. He begins to leap and praise God. Peter is quick to point that they are just a conduit and that the healing comes from God. They also point out that suffering comes from disobedience to God and that the call for repentance and new life is what God always has called for and still does. The unrepentant will suffer and the repentant will cause others to turn from their sin.

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