My Precious One, how easy it is to ignore My warnings, when the one I am warning is you. How equally easy it is to know of My warnings to another and judge their lack of response. This morning as you read the passage concerning Pharaoh's final warning, it was easy for you to read it with the mind set that it was foolish for Pharaoh to ignore My 7 warnings and My 9 plagues. Yet, that is exactly what you do when you know the behavior I desire from you, and you choose instead to ignore what you know that I have clearly asked of you.
Pharaoh could easily ignore My warnings and plagues because, with each time that he followed his own heart, his heart became hardened a bit more. As he scoffed at the warning, not believing Me at all, it got easier to repeat the wrong response. By the time I reached the tenth and final plague, his heart was so hard and unbelieving that he thought nothing of what Moses had said to him by prophecy. He did not count the cost at all for his willful, stubborn disobedience. His hard heart had already cost him much, but he was willing to overlook it, believing that, in the end, he would prevail over Me. When Moses told him of the death that would be coming to all the firstborn of the Egypt, Pharaoh never considered that if Moses was speaking the truth (as he had 9 previous times), that he himself would lose his own firstborn. Because his unbelief prevailed, all of Egypt went into deep sorrow and mourning when they witnessed the devastation that the Angel of Death delivered.
My Precious One, how many warnings from Me will you continue to ignore, believing that no real harm will come to you. Ignoring My warnings, those things that I have clearly laid out for you in My Word, leads to sinful disobedience. And do you not know that your lack of concern for your disobedience reveals your true heart? Your disobedience, at its core, is unbelief in Me, the One you say is your Lord.
Disobedience is its own form of unbelief. When you disobey Me you are telling Me that you believe in your own, sinful heart's desires more than you believe in My ability to provide a way of escape for you. Did you notice that every one of My 7 warnings to Pharaoh included a way a repentance for him, a way for him to turn around and heed My warning? You see, I desire to bring you to repentance, too. Pharaoh never took Me up on it. Will you?
Yes! Yes! Yes! Lord show me each step that I must take. I can't do it without you. When left up to me, I choose the wrong path everytime. I pray for ears to hear and eyes to see all that you want to do in my life. Speak to my heart and show me the way.
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