While reading in the Bible this morning I noticed something that happened during plague #7.
Moses stretched out his rod toward heaven; and the LORD sent thunder and hail, and fire darted to the ground. And the LORD rained hail on the land of Egypt. Ex 9:23
Hail is a devastating meteorological phenomenon.
How many cars or homes do you know have been struck by lightning?
Now how many do you know have been damaged by hail?
Lightning hits usually in one place but hail is over an entire area and can cause widespread destruction.
The devastation was so great in Egypt that Pharaoh admitted that he was a sinner and the Lord was righteous.
He then asked Moses to remove the plague.
So Moses went out of the city from Pharaoh and spread out his hands to the LORD; then the thunder and the hail ceased, and the rain was not poured on the earth. And when Pharaoh saw that the rain, the hail, and the thunder had ceased, he sinned yet more; and he hardened his heart, he and his servants. Ex 9:33-34
I run into a lot of people just like that.
They turn to God when things go wrong; when they have no other recourse.
But as soon as the problems lighten up, it’s back to an old way of doing things and God is not in the picture.
This is exactly what Pharaoh did a couple of times.
He can’t be outdone by some people I know that run to church with their arms in the air yelling, “Pray for me…pray for me! I have so many problems and I don’t know what to do!”
And, of course, we pray for them and the Lord is benevolent enough to answer.
Then they go missing, never to return until they have some problem again.
I need Jesus everyday!
I never have to run to Him when problems arise because He walks me through each one.
Eastern Nazarene College dean, Bertha Munro once said, “A problem is an opportunity to prove God.”
How right that is!
So don’t be a Pharaoh and a fair weather friend to God.
If He’s good enough to call on in the bad times, then He’s also good enough to call on in the good times.