Reading
SAA Notes
The great paradox in Exodus is where it says Pharaoh hardened his heart (9:34), and I the Lord have hardened Pharaoh’s heart (10:1). God is totally sovereign in all things. We are totally responsible for our actions/lives. In the dimensions of eternity, both statements are equally true, though mutually exclusive in the dimensions of our existence.
SJA Notes
* Just and Holy God, You alone save us – Please show us today more of who You are.
“So he went out from Pharaoh and pleaded with the LORD.”
Again we see Moses petitioning the Lord God for mercy upon those who were the enemies of God’s people.
For the man who continued to harden his own heart against God and His people.
Moses keeps on going back to the Lord in prayer for this man!
God has already outlined previously what we see building here, back in chapter four when He gives these words for Pharaoh,
“If you refuse to let him go, behold, I will kill your firstborn son.”
At this point then, toward the end of the plagues, Moses is most likely dwelling on this word from God. Wrestling with it.
These plagues (judgements) were building toward a terrible and powerful work of deliverance from the Lord for His people.
And even with this he continues to bring Pharaoh’s requests for mercy to the Lord, who continues to grant mercy.
How manifold is the good of our Lord that He would bring mercy even to those who reject Him, those who are His enemies.
That was us!
* Gracious Father God in Heaven,
Thank You for Your grace – giving to us what we do not deserve.
Thank You for saving us from our sin, from the just punishment for our sin – That we stand in the righteousness of our King, the Lord Jesus, You in the Person of the Son.
Thank You Lord!
Amen.