One more night with the frogs

Exodus 8:9-10, “Moses said to Pharaoh, `I leave to you the honor of setting the time for me to pray for you and your officials and your people that you and your houses may be rid of the frogs, except for those that remain in the Nile.’ `Tomorrow,’ Pharaoh said.”

Picture it! There were frogs everywhere. They were in the bed, in the kitchen, in the parlor, in the oven, even mixed the bread dough. God had said to Pharaoh, through Moses, “If you refuse to let the children of Israel go, I will smite all your borders with frogs.” Pharaoh refused to let God’s people go, and now there were frogs everywhere. an Egyptian woman opens the oven and screams, as frogs jump out of the oven. Some fellow starts to pulls his sheets down on the bed, and frogs come out from the covers. Another fellow starts to put his cloths on, and there are frogs all through his clothing. Some Egyptian boys are kicking a can along their way to school and there are frogs everywhere!

There are big frogs, small frogs, frogs in the house, frogs all over the yard. There are big, smelly, mountains of millions of frogs through-out the land of Egypt.

Pharaoh could sand it no longer and so he calls Moses and Moses says to Pharaoh, “I will ask God to take the frogs out of the land, you just tell me when shall God remove the frogs?” And, Pharaoh tells Moses, “Tomorrow!”

For the life of me, I cannot figure it out! There were frogs everywhere, in the bed, in the food, in all the houses, in the Egyptians clothing. God was ready to remove them all and Pharaoh says, “Wait until tomorrow, give me one more night with the frogs!”

This pictures the an unbeliever who is rebellious, proud and procrastinating. God warns them, and tells them that if they will obey His Word, they will be spared from coming judgment. What do they do? They experience sorrows, heartaches and fears as a result of their sinning, but God loves them and wants to remove judgment from them. And, just like Pharaoh, they says, ”Okey, God, but wait until tomorrow . . . wait until some other time!”

We are famous for that word “tomorrow” and what we are going to do then. Preach to Christians about full surrender and they will say, “I know I should surrender fully to God, it is the only honest thing to do. I plan to do it – tomorrow!”

“Give me one more night with the frogs!”

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