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Ants, Rock Badgers, Locusts, and Lizards!

Dear Lord, I pray for wisdom for those who pay attention to the world around them. In Jesus’ name, amen.

Who would think that ants, rock badgers, locusts, and lizards would find their way into King Solomon’s Proverbs?

Proverbs 30:24-28 (ESV) shows King Solomon’s ability as an observer and his wisdom.

“Four things on earth are small,
but they are exceedingly wise:
the ants are a people not strong,
yet they provide their food in the summer;
the rock badgers are a people not mighty,
yet they make their homes in the cliffs;
the locusts have no king,
yet all of them march in rank;
the lizard you can take in your hands,
yet it is in kings’ palaces.”

Is it time you paid greater attention to what is around you?

Take a while this week and think deeply about what lessons can be learned from nature.

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The Plagues of Egypt?

Dear Lord, I pray for wisdom for those who know the plagues in Egypt were a sign of your great power. In Jesus’ name, amen.

Even one of the plagues of Egypt would have been a terrible thing. Taken together, they became a national disaster.

Pharaoh was not about to let God’s people go. God hardened Pharaoh’s heart. The Lord told Moses in Exodus 7:3-4,

“But I will harden Pharaoh’s heart, and though I multiply my signs and wonders in the land of Egypt, Pharaoh will not listen to you. Then I will lay my hand on Egypt and bring my hosts, my people the children of Israel, out of the land of Egypt by great acts of judgment.”

In Psalm 105:26-36 (ESV) we find God’s signs and wonders.

“He [God] sent Moses, his servant,
and Aaron, whom he had chosen.
They performed his signs among them
and miracles in the land of Ham.
He sent darkness, and made the land dark;
they did not rebel against his words.
He turned their waters into blood
and caused their fish to die.
Their land swarmed with frogs,
even in the chambers of their kings.
He spoke, and there came swarms of flies,
and gnats throughout their country.
He gave them hail for rain,
and fiery lightning bolts through their land.
He struck down their vines and fig trees,
and shattered the trees of their country.
He spoke, and the locusts came,
young locusts without number,
which devoured all the vegetation in their land
and ate up the fruit of their ground.
He struck down all the firstborn in their land,
the firstfruits of all their strength.”

Pharaoh would not permit God’s people to leave Egypt. How is your heart? Hard? Soft? Listen for God’s still quiet voice. Respond.

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