While the plague of blood was limited to the waterways of Egypt the next plague permeated the land. There were frogs everywhere, including the interior of the palace, bedrooms, beds, and cooking utensils. We should notice here how God’s sovereign power is seen to be wielded not by Pharaoh but by Moses. Moses lifts his staff over the deified waterways to command the frogs to come. Then it is Moses who must pray for the plague to be taken away. Pharaoh is powerless here. The plague has come into his own household and he is unable to stop it. Moses, however, is able to bring the plague to a halt by a simple prayer. There is a comparison here, therefore, between Moses and Pharaoh which is made all the more significant by the fact that the two probably grew up together in the same household. Here again God chooses and exalts the ‘lesser’ and humbles the ‘greater’. God’s man here is given authority over the worldly power. This authority is not one gained by royal birth and military strength but by God’s grace and it is wielded through prayer. Remember this message when you feel crushed by the weight of the world. God is sovereign over the forces that crush you and he will lift you up and defeat everything that stands in the way of his purpose. When you belong to God and walk in his purpose your path cannot be thwarted.
Pray for God to lift whatever burden you feel crushed by.
Read Exodus 8:1-15
