And the fish in the Nile died, and the Nile stank, so that the Egyptians could not drink water from the Nile. There was blood throughout all the land of Egypt. 22 But the magicians of Egypt did the same by their secret arts. So Pharaoh’s heart remained hardened, and he would not listen to them, as the Lord had said. Exodus 7:21-22 – The first plague against Egypt is found here in our passage, the Lord turned the waters of the Nile and other waters all over Egypt into blood. Something though we’re going to see with this plague and a few of the next ones is what we see unfold in verse 22. The magicians of Egypt replicated the plague with their secret arts. Now some may claim they did this with illusions and actually didn’t turn water to blood, but I believe we are seeing Satan working overtime with his powers to imitate the Lord’s work to keep the Egyptians from turning to the Lord. Let us not forget that Satan too has power in this world. Yet see with this a couple truths about his power. First, he didn’t use his power to help the Egyptians out of their suffering, in fact he just created more blood for them to deal with. Satan has no desire to alleviate our suffering, all he cares is that we don’t turn to the Lord who can. Yet even if Satan wanted to turn the blood back into water for the Egyptians, he couldn’t, and there we see our second truth about Satan’s power. He can’t undo what God has done. Satan can imitate and distract, but he holds no power against the Lord. He can’t stop what God has set in motion, and He can’t reverse what God has done. While we certainly will see the enemy’s handiwork within our lives just as Moses was seeing in this chapter, remember who is truly in power and who’s the One seated on the throne of Heaven. I love you, but Jesus loves you more – Mac – Daily DEVO 3151
Question To Ponder: How should knowing the all-powerful God of the universe is with you change how you see the workings of the enemy in this world?
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