the Fourth Week after Easter
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Daily Devotionals
Day by Day Devotional - Year 1 of 5
Exodus 10:24 to Exodus 11:10
Nine plagues have followed one after another in the land of Egypt. There remains yet a tenth, more terrible than all the former ones, the significance of which we shall see. But it is preceded by a final proposition made by Pharaoh: "Go ye, serve the LORD; only let your flocks and your herds be stayed" (v. 24). It was to prevent the people subsequently offering their sacrifices and gifts. We see well enough in this the efforts of Satan to rob us of the One who was the perfect Sacrifice. He does everything to take from us our enjoyment of Christ, in particular when we come together in worship to present Him to the Father. Alas, he often succeeds only too well in this. The result is then loss for us, but above all God is robbed of the precious offering which He expects from His redeemed children. And in a more general way, Moses’ reply reminds us that God has rights not only over us ourselves, but over all that we possess.
Moses, at this point, is seized with burning anger (v. 8). We shall see that on several occasions this man of God was subject to anger, yet he was the one who was "very meek, above all the men which were upon the face of the earth." (Numbers 12:3 : see Exodus 16:20; Exodus 32:19; Leviticus 10:16; Numbers 16:15; Numbers 31:14). But it is a question of the glory of God, and the good of His people. Does our anger always have such a righteous cause?
