MY DAILY COVENANT WITH GOD DEVOTIONAL
Devotion for Monday September 21, 2020
Topic: To Gain Honour Over Pharaoh
Text: Exodus 14:1 – 9
It is act of foolishness to use human reasoning to access God. It
will amount to failure. God is never programmed. His ways are not our ways. His
thoughts are higher than ours.
There is this aphorism of my people which says that “He that the
god will kill; first, will be made mad.” This was the case of Pharaoh. God
hardened his heart so as to gain honour over him. Pharaoh thought that all
Israel were entangled in the wilderness, and so would become an easy prey for
him. But God says, I will be honoured upon Pharaoh. Of course we all are made
for the honour of our Maker. If men would not have their hearts hardened, they
must not continue knowingly to disobey God. If they thus disobey, all the blame
will rest upon them when God’s anger is revealed (Romans 1:24 – 26).
After relenting and giving them permission to depart with the
greatest reason, he now changes his mind and determines to prevent them; and
without any farther restraining grace, God permits him to rush on to his final
ruin, for the cup of his iniquity was now full. This shows that there is a
limit to which we can enjoy the grace of God. Never think that you have all the
days and years to enjoy the grace of God.
Are you living in sin and thinking that you can continue to live
the way you like? Today may be your last day to commit that sin and God will
expose you. Why not repent at this moment and accept Jesus as your Lord and
Saviour before God will gain honour over you as He did with Pharaoh?
Food for Thought: Exodus 9:16
Memory verse: Exodus 14 v 4
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