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When reading the account of the plagues in Exodus, it can feel like a sequence of escalating disasters.
Water turns to blood.
Frogs cover the land.
Darkness falls.
The firstborn die.
Each event is described,
and each is followed by
Pharaoh’s response.
But later in the narrative,
there is a line that quietly
reframes everything.
“On all the gods of Egypt
I will execute judgments”
(Exodus 12:12).
The statement is brief.
It does not list names.
It does not explain each plague.
It simply tells us
that what happened in Egypt
was not only about suffering or release.
It was about judgment
directed at what Egypt trusted.
That is where the reading begins to shift.
Egypt was not an empty system.
Its life was ordered around
the Nile, the land, the sky,
and the structures that
held them together.
These were not seen as ordinary.
They were tied to their understanding
of divine power.
The Nile gave life.
The sun gave light.
Animals were associated
with strength and fertility.
Against that background,
the plagues begin to
look less random.
The Nile, which sustained everything,
is struck first.
What had been a source of life
becomes unusable.
Creatures that symbolized fertility
become overwhelming.
Animals that were treated with reverence
are affected.
The sky, which seemed stable,
produces hail and then darkness.
The pattern moves through
what Egypt relied on.
The text does not require
a precise one-to-one mapping
between each plague and a specific god.
It does not say that directly.
But it does say
that the judgments reached
into the places where confidence had been placed.
Pharaoh himself stands at the center of this.
He is not only a political ruler.
He is part of the system
that presents itself as ordered and secure.
When Moses speaks to him,
the question is not only political.
“Who is the Lord,
that I should obey His voice?” (Exodus 5:2).
The plagues answer that question.
Not through argument,
but through what unfolds in the land.
What Egypt depends on
is shown to be unstable.
What is treated as ultimate
is shown to be limited.
Theologically, the plagues are not only punishments.
They are exposures.
They reveal that what appears
to hold life together
does not ultimately sustain it.
Reading the passage carefully,
the sequence is not chaotic.
It is directed.
It moves from what is most visible
and familiar
to what is most ultimate.
The Nile.
The land.
The sky.
Life itself.
And at each point,
what seems secure
is touched.
The line remains simple.
“On all the gods of Egypt
I will execute judgments.”
But it reshapes the story.
What happened in Egypt
was not only about letting Israel go.
It was about showing
that what Egypt called divine
was not.
And that the God who spoke
was not one among many.
He was the One
over all of them.
~Undaunted Disciple
Water turns to blood.
Frogs cover the land.
Darkness falls.
The firstborn die.
Each event is described,
and each is followed by
Pharaoh’s response.
But later in the narrative,
there is a line that quietly
reframes everything.
“On all the gods of Egypt
I will execute judgments”
(Exodus 12:12).
The statement is brief.
It does not list names.
It does not explain each plague.
It simply tells us
that what happened in Egypt
was not only about suffering or release.
It was about judgment
directed at what Egypt trusted.
That is where the reading begins to shift.
Egypt was not an empty system.
Its life was ordered around
the Nile, the land, the sky,
and the structures that
held them together.
These were not seen as ordinary.
They were tied to their understanding
of divine power.
The Nile gave life.
The sun gave light.
Animals were associated
with strength and fertility.
Against that background,
the plagues begin to
look less random.
The Nile, which sustained everything,
is struck first.
What had been a source of life
becomes unusable.
Creatures that symbolized fertility
become overwhelming.
Animals that were treated with reverence
are affected.
The sky, which seemed stable,
produces hail and then darkness.
The pattern moves through
what Egypt relied on.
The text does not require
a precise one-to-one mapping
between each plague and a specific god.
It does not say that directly.
But it does say
that the judgments reached
into the places where confidence had been placed.
Pharaoh himself stands at the center of this.
He is not only a political ruler.
He is part of the system
that presents itself as ordered and secure.
When Moses speaks to him,
the question is not only political.
“Who is the Lord,
that I should obey His voice?” (Exodus 5:2).
The plagues answer that question.
Not through argument,
but through what unfolds in the land.
What Egypt depends on
is shown to be unstable.
What is treated as ultimate
is shown to be limited.
Theologically, the plagues are not only punishments.
They are exposures.
They reveal that what appears
to hold life together
does not ultimately sustain it.
Reading the passage carefully,
the sequence is not chaotic.
It is directed.
It moves from what is most visible
and familiar
to what is most ultimate.
The Nile.
The land.
The sky.
Life itself.
And at each point,
what seems secure
is touched.
The line remains simple.
“On all the gods of Egypt
I will execute judgments.”
But it reshapes the story.
What happened in Egypt
was not only about letting Israel go.
It was about showing
that what Egypt called divine
was not.
And that the God who spoke
was not one among many.
He was the One
over all of them.
~Undaunted Disciple
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Prompted by Love
“We give thanks to God always for you all, making mention of you in our prayers, remembering without ceasing your work of faith, labor of love, and patience of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ in the sight of our God and Father, knowing, beloved brethren, your election by God.” (1 Thessalonians 1:2-4)
Emily Kenward walked down Lavender Street in Brighton, England. Having recently become a believer in Jesus, she now saw the street differently. She noticed how many homes had their curtains drawn in the daytime, and how few older people were about, despite the area’s high elderly population. It spurred an idea.
Emily found out where Brighton’s elderly lived and invited them to an afternoon tea. Those who came told a similar story. Now living alone, they often went months without seeing anyone. What they longed for, they said, was a visitor.
Believing in Jesus changes how we respond to the world and its needs. We see this happening to the Thessalonians. Having turned to God (1 Thessalonians 1:9), they had become a model of faith to others by their transformed lives (vv. 6-7). The apostle Paul noted their “work produced by faith” and their “labor prompted by love” (v. 3). True faith had moved them to acts of service that brought honor to Jesus.
Emily was so moved by what she heard at that afternoon tea that she started a charity linking Brighton’s elderly with volunteer visitors. She remembers one woman hugging her tightly, sobbing, grateful for finally feeling seen and heard. The work grew, inspiring others to do the same. It makes me wonder what labors prompted by love the Holy Spirit might inspire you and me to do today.
By Sheridan Voysey
Reflect & Pray;
What need do you see in your community? Listening to the Spirit, what would a labor prompted by love look like to help meet it?
Holy Spirit, Please fill me afresh to love others well!
Scriptural Insight;
Acts 9 introduces us to a believer in Jesus who was prompted by love to serve others. “In Joppa there was a disciple named Tabitha [Dorcas] . . . ; she was always doing good and helping the poor” (v. 36). The Greek word at the root of the word translated “helping the poor” means to “have mercy” or “pity.” In Joppa, there was a specific group of people who benefited from Tabitha’s “acts of charity” (v. 36 esv). We read how “all the widows stood around [Peter], crying and showing him the robes and other clothing that Dorcas (Tabitha's Greek name) had made while she was still with them” (v. 39). Her legacy of love for Christ included acts of mercy and kindness for vulnerable people. Her example as well as that of believers in Thessalonica remind those who’ve been “loved by God” (1 Thessalonians 1:4) to allow the Holy Spirit to help us find ways to tangibly show love to others.
By: Arthur Jackson
https://odbm.org/
The Gospel of Jesus Christ;
“Moreover, brethren, I declare to you the gospel which I preached to you, which also you received and in which you stand, by which also you are saved, if you hold fast that word which I preached to you--unless you believed in vain. For I delivered to you first of all that which I also received: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, and that He was buried, and that He rose again the third day according to the Scriptures,” - 1 Corinthians 15:1-4
“”Pray for the peace of Jerusalem: "May they prosper who love you. Peace be within your walls, Prosperity within your palaces." For the sake of my brethren and companions, I will now say, "Peace be within you." Because of the house of the LORD our God I will seek your good””. - Psalm 122:6-9
Bless Israel in ALL Things;
“I will bless those who bless you, And I will curse him who curses you; And in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed." - Genesis 12:3
“We give thanks to God always for you all, making mention of you in our prayers, remembering without ceasing your work of faith, labor of love, and patience of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ in the sight of our God and Father, knowing, beloved brethren, your election by God.” (1 Thessalonians 1:2-4)
Emily Kenward walked down Lavender Street in Brighton, England. Having recently become a believer in Jesus, she now saw the street differently. She noticed how many homes had their curtains drawn in the daytime, and how few older people were about, despite the area’s high elderly population. It spurred an idea.
Emily found out where Brighton’s elderly lived and invited them to an afternoon tea. Those who came told a similar story. Now living alone, they often went months without seeing anyone. What they longed for, they said, was a visitor.
Believing in Jesus changes how we respond to the world and its needs. We see this happening to the Thessalonians. Having turned to God (1 Thessalonians 1:9), they had become a model of faith to others by their transformed lives (vv. 6-7). The apostle Paul noted their “work produced by faith” and their “labor prompted by love” (v. 3). True faith had moved them to acts of service that brought honor to Jesus.
Emily was so moved by what she heard at that afternoon tea that she started a charity linking Brighton’s elderly with volunteer visitors. She remembers one woman hugging her tightly, sobbing, grateful for finally feeling seen and heard. The work grew, inspiring others to do the same. It makes me wonder what labors prompted by love the Holy Spirit might inspire you and me to do today.
By Sheridan Voysey
Reflect & Pray;
What need do you see in your community? Listening to the Spirit, what would a labor prompted by love look like to help meet it?
Holy Spirit, Please fill me afresh to love others well!
Scriptural Insight;
Acts 9 introduces us to a believer in Jesus who was prompted by love to serve others. “In Joppa there was a disciple named Tabitha [Dorcas] . . . ; she was always doing good and helping the poor” (v. 36). The Greek word at the root of the word translated “helping the poor” means to “have mercy” or “pity.” In Joppa, there was a specific group of people who benefited from Tabitha’s “acts of charity” (v. 36 esv). We read how “all the widows stood around [Peter], crying and showing him the robes and other clothing that Dorcas (Tabitha's Greek name) had made while she was still with them” (v. 39). Her legacy of love for Christ included acts of mercy and kindness for vulnerable people. Her example as well as that of believers in Thessalonica remind those who’ve been “loved by God” (1 Thessalonians 1:4) to allow the Holy Spirit to help us find ways to tangibly show love to others.
By: Arthur Jackson
https://odbm.org/
The Gospel of Jesus Christ;
“Moreover, brethren, I declare to you the gospel which I preached to you, which also you received and in which you stand, by which also you are saved, if you hold fast that word which I preached to you--unless you believed in vain. For I delivered to you first of all that which I also received: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, and that He was buried, and that He rose again the third day according to the Scriptures,” - 1 Corinthians 15:1-4
“”Pray for the peace of Jerusalem: "May they prosper who love you. Peace be within your walls, Prosperity within your palaces." For the sake of my brethren and companions, I will now say, "Peace be within you." Because of the house of the LORD our God I will seek your good””. - Psalm 122:6-9
Bless Israel in ALL Things;
“I will bless those who bless you, And I will curse him who curses you; And in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed." - Genesis 12:3
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Forwarded from The Narrow Gate
C. H. Spurgeon's
Morning Reading
(April 9th)
"And there followed Him a great company of people, and of women, which also bewailed and lamented Him." — Luke 23:27
Amid the rabble rout which hounded the Redeemer to His doom, there were some gracious souls whose bitter anguish sought vent in wailing and lamentations—fit music to accompany that march of woe. When my soul can, in imagination, see the Saviour bearing His cross to Calvary, she joins the godly women and weeps with them; for, indeed, there is true cause for grief—cause lying deeper than those mourning women thought. They bewailed innocence maltreated, goodness persecuted, love bleeding, meekness about to die; but my heart has a deeper and more bitter cause to mourn. My sins were the scourges which lacerated those blessed shoulders, and crowned with thorn those bleeding brows: my sins cried "Crucify Him! crucify Him!" and laid the cross upon His gracious shoulders. His being led forth to die is sorrow enough for one eternity: but my having been His murderer, is more, infinitely more, grief than one poor fountain of tears can express.
Why those women loved and wept it were not hard to guess: but they could not have had greater reasons for love and grief than my heart has. Nain's widow saw her son restored—but I myself have been raised to newness of life. Peter's wife's mother was cured of the fever—but I of the greater plague of sin. Out of Magdalene seven devils were cast—but a whole legion out of me. Mary and Martha were favoured with visits—but He dwells with me. His mother bare His body—but He is formed in me the hope of glory. In nothing behind the holy women in debt, let me not be behind them in gratitude or sorrow.
"Love and grief my heart dividing,
With my tears His feet I'll lave—
Constant still in heart abiding,
Weep for Him who died to save."
Morning Reading
(April 9th)
"And there followed Him a great company of people, and of women, which also bewailed and lamented Him." — Luke 23:27
Amid the rabble rout which hounded the Redeemer to His doom, there were some gracious souls whose bitter anguish sought vent in wailing and lamentations—fit music to accompany that march of woe. When my soul can, in imagination, see the Saviour bearing His cross to Calvary, she joins the godly women and weeps with them; for, indeed, there is true cause for grief—cause lying deeper than those mourning women thought. They bewailed innocence maltreated, goodness persecuted, love bleeding, meekness about to die; but my heart has a deeper and more bitter cause to mourn. My sins were the scourges which lacerated those blessed shoulders, and crowned with thorn those bleeding brows: my sins cried "Crucify Him! crucify Him!" and laid the cross upon His gracious shoulders. His being led forth to die is sorrow enough for one eternity: but my having been His murderer, is more, infinitely more, grief than one poor fountain of tears can express.
Why those women loved and wept it were not hard to guess: but they could not have had greater reasons for love and grief than my heart has. Nain's widow saw her son restored—but I myself have been raised to newness of life. Peter's wife's mother was cured of the fever—but I of the greater plague of sin. Out of Magdalene seven devils were cast—but a whole legion out of me. Mary and Martha were favoured with visits—but He dwells with me. His mother bare His body—but He is formed in me the hope of glory. In nothing behind the holy women in debt, let me not be behind them in gratitude or sorrow.
"Love and grief my heart dividing,
With my tears His feet I'll lave—
Constant still in heart abiding,
Weep for Him who died to save."
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Where did Delilah live?
Anonymous Quiz
13%
In the valley of Sorek
25%
In the city of Gaza
51%
In the village of Timnath
11%
In the wilderness of Zorah
But in the ________ year of Cyrus the king of Babylon the same king Cyrus made a decree to build this house of God.
Anonymous Quiz
29%
Eleventh
18%
Sixth
26%
First
27%
Fourteenth
Where is this verse found?
Anonymous Quiz
4%
I Corinthians
40%
I Thessalonians
25%
2 Peter
31%
Revelation
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