Christian Devotional – July 31, 2023

The Coming Savior, Day 8

The distinction. Read Exodus chapter 8.

While we’ve known that God has been sending plagues on the Egyptians, in this chapter we learn something very important. The first two plagues impacted both the Egyptians and the Israelites. Even though it was the Egyptians who were being disobedient to God, everyone they were around was impacted by the plagues as well. So the Israelite people, even though they were the ones who were wanting and needing to be saved, they had to go through the challenges of some of the plagues. It wasn’t until the third plague that God said he would make a distinction between the israelites and the Egyptians for that specific plague.

Do we realize that the difficulties that we go through may, in fact, be a result of our own consequences to sin, or they may be the result of the consequences of sin of those around us. God does not always make a distinction between the two. We have to trust God, seek to be obedient and repentant to him, and have faith that he knows best and that everything is for his glory.