Thursday, January 23, 2014

How hard-hearted are we?

Exodus 12:29-32 At midnight the Lord struck down all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh who sat on his throne to the firstborn of the captive who was in the dungeon, and all the firstborn of the livestock. And Pharaoh rose up in the night, he and all his servants and all the Egyptians. And there was a great cry in Egypt, for there was not a house where someone was not dead. Then he summoned Moses and Aaron by night and said, “Up, go out from among my people, both you and the people of Israel; and go, serve the Lord, as you have said. Take your flocks and your herds, as you have said, and be gone, and bless me also!” One benefit of being behind in your Bible Reading? Yesterday we read this. What a sobering verse for Sanctity of Life Day! It took the death of his own son for Pharaoh to finally let God's people go and see who they really were: they were the ones God was blessing and through whom he and his nation could be blessed! So not only does he ask them to leave; he asks for their blessing. Sad to say, this is a short-lived change of heart. What will it take our nation to stop being so hard-hearted? How many firstborn will need to die before it hits home in enough hearts?

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