One More Night

Exodus 8:8-11 NRSV

“Then Pharaoh called Moses and Aaron, and said, “Pray to the Lord to take away the frogs from me and my people, and I will let the people go to sacrifice to the Lord.” Moses said to Pharaoh, “Kindly tell me when I am to pray for you and for your officials and for your people, that the frogs may be removed from you and your houses and be left only in the Nile.” And he said, “Tomorrow.” Moses said, “As you say! So that you may know that there is no one like the Lord our God, the frogs shall leave you and your houses and your officials and your people; they shall be left only in the Nile.”

Pharaoh bad decisions caused pain for his people. Yet, he was given a chance for relief for the Egyptians by releasing the Israelites. His relief would be from the frogs everywhere- but he chose to spend one more night with the frogs. 

The frogs, those things that keep us in a constant state of flux trying to deal with them. Too often we lash out at anything and everything, not realizing that the problem is the frogs in our mind. Pharaoh chose to spend one more night. We don’t have to. We can give those issues that cause us pain and misery to God right now, and watch what he does. He has ways of handling things that we can not imagine. What do you chose? enough for now.