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Then the Lord (YHWY) said to Moses, “Go to Pharaoh and say to him, thus says the Lord, let My people go, that they may serve Me. But if you refuse to let them go, behold, I will smite your whole territory with frogs.”
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God watches over His word to perform it. {Jer.1:12} Pharaoh did at that point refuse to let the Hebrews go and the Lord had Moses say to Aaron, ‘Stretch out your hand with your staff over the rivers, over the streams and over the pools, and make frogs come up on the land of Egypt.’ He did, and the frogs did!

And the Nile swarmed with frogs, which came up and went into the Egyptian’s houses and into their bedrooms and on their beds, and into the houses of the servants and on the people, and into their ovens and into their kneading bowls. {Ex.8:3} Frogs were everywhere! And not just a few, they covered the land—every step was met with a squish!

The magicians of Egypt once again, as they had done before in the first plague, used their secret arts to demonstrate their power to fix this—and they made more frogs. There is a theological, technical term for that—stupidity! When the problem is frogs you can’t make it better by making more frogs, so don’t be a frogmaker!!! And that should be a lesson for us today, especially if we have paid attention to the words of Jesus in the Sermon on the Mount and elsewhere.

The response to hatred must be our love, not more hatred. The response to anger must be our peace, not more anger. The response to any evil must be our faith in a loving God because we know that He causes everything (yes, everything) to work together for our good. {Rom.8:28} And I should add, in His time! Remember that patience is a fruit of the Holy Spirit {Gal.5:22} and that the Lord is always at work both to will and to work for His good pleasure. {Php.2:13}

With all of that said, when Pharaoh relented and asked Moses to entreat the Lord to remove the frogs, from him, his people and his kingdom Moses asked him, ‘when shall I do that?’ The Pharaoh responded saying, ‘Tomorrow’—put it off another day! It was not patience that was in evidence, that was once again, stupidity! It is no wonder that David wrote that ‘He who sits in the heavens laughs, the Lord scoffs at them.’ {Ps.2:4}

My dear brother or sister, did you ever procrastinate? Did you ever put off until tomorrow something you really should have dealt with today? Were you ever willing to spend just another night with the frogs? “In all labor there is profit, mere talk leads only to poverty” just as Solomon wrote. {Prov.14:23} Don’t just talk about it, do it!

“For whatever is born of God overcomes the world; and this is the victory that has overcome the world—our faith. And who is the one who overcomes the world, but he who believes that Jesus is the Son of God?” (1 John 5:4-5)

NO MORE FROGS, NEVER AGAIN, RIGHT NOW!