Moses and his brother Aaron stand before the Pharaoh and demand the release of God's people to worship. Pharaoh has no intention of letting them leave, so Moses demonstrates the power of God to Pharaoh through many horribly wonderful phenomena. Turning the Nile to blood, calling for frogs to overrun the land, gnats that cover everything and everyone, flies that infest the land (but not the land of the Israelites). In each case, Pharaoh asks for the removal of the plague with the promise of compliance; in each case Pharaoh changes his mind once the trouble is removed and becomes even firmer in his decision to not allow the Israelites to depart.
How often do you and I act like Pharaoh? We beg God for the removal of trouble - trouble that has come as a result of our own stubborn actions - and then do nothing to change our ways, do nothing about the promises we made God during the trouble. Like He did with Pharaoh, God will use increasing amounts of persuasion to convince us that He alone is God.
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