Exodus 8:5 Then the Lord said to Moses, “Tell Aaron, ‘Stretch out your hand with your staff over the streams and canals and ponds, and make frogs come up on the land of Egypt.’ ”
As I was typing today’s verses, I thought about the childhood “game” of mimicry, where one child mimics every single thing the other does. I think the intention is to drive the other bananas, and it typically works. At least that was my experience as a child.
Exodus 8:6 So Aaron stretched out his hand over the waters of Egypt, and the frogs came up and covered the land.
The magicians seem to be playing a game of mimicry with Moses and Aaron. Everything Aaron does, the magicians do. I assume Pharaoh’s intention is to say, “See, my magicians can do what your God can do,” but the magicians only keep adding to the problems. They don’t neutralize or reverse them. Interesting….
Exodus 8:7 But the magicians did the same things by their secret arts; they also made frogs come up on the land of Egypt.
Precious Savior, I have no idea why certain thoughts float through my mind as I am studying Your word, but I have learned that sometimes You use those random thoughts to get me to think differently about verses I have never pondered deeply before. Help me, always, to draw closer to You. Amen.
Exodus 8:8 Pharaoh summoned Moses and Aaron and said, “Pray to the Lord to take the frogs away from me and my people, and I will let your people go to offer sacrifices to the Lord.”
Have a blessed day.