ONE MORE NIGHT WITH THE FROGS

“Tomorrow”

Exodus 8:10

Why would anyone want to stay in the same old condition? You do not have to spend another night with the frogs in your life! One of the biggest conflicts people have with themselves is procrastination. Procrastination means, “to put off intentionally.” Procrastination literally is a thief of time. Because of procrastination, people have missed an abundance of things that, if they had not put them off, would have worked out differently. Procrastination caused them to miss it!

In the Book of Exodus, we read about the Israelites being in slavery and bondage in Egypt, a place never designed for God’s people! Moses was sent by God to Egypt to obtain their release, but Pharaoh hardened his heart and would not let them go. Plagues were sent into the land, including a plague of frogs. Frogs everywhere! Frogs in the bathrooms, clothes, socks, shoes, underwear, dishes, sinks, beds, squishing under their toes, live croaking, dead stinking frogs -- everywhere! Pharaoh was sick of frogs, and he demanded Moses get them out of his house and his country. Moses said, “Let God’s people go.” Pharaoh’s response to the frog problem was much like ours, when it comes to sin in our lives. “Tomorrow!” They can go tomorrow. Now, why would we want to put up with frogs -- one more night?

Pharaoh was much like us! We wish for some miraculous intervention, because we cannot remove the plagues in our lives. So, we become content with them. We are content to be wading in the frogs of sin and disobedience to God. It appears living with frogs is better than living with God. We put off lots of things until tomorrow, diets, exercise, reading our Bible, prayer, devotion, family time, church attendance, etc. We have put them off for so long, that it almost seems that we are content in our meager existences. People come to a place where they just do not need or want a better life, or even a better relationship with God.

Are you tired of the frogs in your life? Today is the day to make it right. Today is the day to completely commit to God. Today is the day to “lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us.” Today is the day of salvation -- no more nights with the frogs!

WISDOM WORD: “Sin is not hurtful because it is forbidden; it is forbidden because it is hurtful.” ~ Benjamin Franklin

TODAY’S PRAYER: “Father, show me how to be delivered from the plagues in my life, and set me free from the frogs of sin and disobedience, In Jesus' Name, Amen.”