It wasn’t from the Bible that I learned not to complain.
It one rather bad moment I complained. A friend told me to cheer up it could be worse. I cheered up and sure enough it got worse.
That didn’t cure me.
It was a Will Rogers saying. “I used to complain about not having any shoes until [...]

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When the Israelites saw God’s power which He used against the Egyptians, they feared the Lord and believed. (Ex. 14:31)
Yeah, and not long after that, they forgot, got in trouble, were rescued and believed again. Then lather, rinse and repeat.
Seeing is believing but it doesn’t last. Believing results in seeing more clearly what God has [...]

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When Pharaoh and his army chased the Israelites, the Israelites ran into a dead end at the Red Sea.
Much has been made of this. And lots of explanations have been put forward about God, via Moses, parting the Red Sea.
One of which was the Sea was at a low ebb in its season and it [...]

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The Israelites had been free people for no more than a couple of days when Pharaoh and his men started chasing them down.
Ten plagues at the hand of God meant nothing when Pharaoh and his army were within striking distance. As the army drew near, “the Israelites became very frightened.”
If I had a nickel for [...]

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‘With a powerful hand’ it says three times in Exodus 13, the Lord brought the Israelites out of Egypt.
There were some 600,000 Israelites and the nation of Egypt was standing firmly on top of them.
How powerful would a hand have to be to deliver up that many people from under such severe bondage that was [...]

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God sure killed a lot of people in the process of getting the Israelites out of Egypt.
The last plague - all the first-born were struck. All of them.
Mean God. Bad God.
But, death is not the worst thing that can happen to a person if on the other side of death they find themselves with God.
Death [...]

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Exodus 12 - Against all gods of Egypt, I will execute judgments - I am the Lord.
By the end of the 10 plagues God had trounced all the false gods of Egypt, and did it against all odds.
Didn’t matter what or who stood in God’s way…what false hopes and hardened hearts…God was able to prevail.
God [...]

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I’m looking at the ten plagues of Egypt and I am up to number 6, (Exodus 9).
Pharaoh seems to be quite proud of himself, fighting with God, or at least stubbornly resisting God.
The truth of the matter - “…indeed, for this cause I have allowed you to remain, in order to show you My power, [...]

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The magicians and Aaron went at if for a couple of rounds, but in round three they had to give up.
This is the Finger of God they said. Worse yet, God was good for another seven rounds beyond that.
There’s a fellow I know who says he wishes God would strike him with lightening every now [...]

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The proof is in the pudding or something like that.
All bark and no bite means almost the same thing.
Those from Missouri say, “Show me.”
The Egyptians will know I am the Lord said God. And they will know when I deliver the people of Israel from out from under them.
Four hundred some odd years of slavery. [...]

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Okay. I realize this is a silly question and the answer is more philosophical than physical, but.
The Psalms say that the heavens are the work of God’s fingers, including the moon, the stars, the earth… they are all Playdoh in God’s hand. (Psalms 8:3).
Isaiah says the nations are but a drop in the bucket, dust [...]

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Things sometimes get worse. And, it’s God’s fault.
The Israelites were driven hard by the taskmasters of Egypt, then harder, then harder. And, it was God’s fault, because Pharoah’s heart was equally hardening.
What are we to think when things get really really hard? That God has abandoned us? That we have fallen out of His grace? [...]

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