Bible reading: Exodus 7,8
And if thou refuse to let them go, behold, I will smite all thy borders with frogs: – Exodus 8:2 (KJV)
Many of us are in the habit of putting everything off we would have done today until tomorrow? In Exodus 8, we see someone who puts something off until tomorrow that should have been taken care of today. His name is Pharaoh.
God has chosen a man named Moses to go before the most powerful ruler of his days and tell him, “God says, Let my people go!” God told Moses to trust him to do the impossible.
Moses stands before Pharaoh (who thought he was a god) and said, “The one true God says Let my people GO!” Pharaoh laughed and refused. So God turned the Nile into blood. Then Moses comes back over and over to him to let the people of God go. But pharaoh would not.
God sends a swarm of frogs over all the land. Frogs in the pots, beds, showers, underfoot, everywhere. Finally, Pharaoh has had enough and he calls for Moses to call off the hoard. Moses essentially asks Pharaoh, “So when do you want these frogs gone if its bothering you so bad. Now or later.” Pharaoh’s answer was Tomorrow!
Pharaoh had somehow become very comfortable in an uncomfortable situation. He had learned to relax in the midst of filth. What used to bother him, now is only a mild hindrance, and eventually will become everyday life, then destruction will set in!
That is the way many of us live out our lives. We put up with things that used to bother us. we put it off until “tomorrow” when it should be taken care of today.
Pharaoh knew there was a problem in the kingdom. Frogs everywhere! Plagues everywhere! But somehow he had become comfortable with them to the point that he was willing to stay one more day with his old friends.
Have you ever gotten under conviction for your sin, maybe because of a sermon, a song, a bible reading, etc, and you know you should repent and give that sin up but you say, “Tomorrow I will do something about it?” You know sin can become habitual, It’s always there when you need to pick it up. It never judges you. Maybe it’s an addiction like gambling, smoking, over-eating, gossiping, etc. We know it’s wrong. We know we need to do something about it, but we can start worrying about that “till tomorrow.”
Too many Christians are willing to turn from their sins “tomorrow” like Pharaoh. Why live with that sin another day?
You must realize that we don’t know how long we might have to live. Minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, years, or more but I urge you, give God every minutes from NOW! Life is short! We have no idea how many “Tomorrows” we may have. Accept Jesus now! Tomorrow may be too late. Give Him your everything Today. Why not Today?
Prayer:
Lord, of the years that are left to me i yield them to Thy hand today. Take me, make me, mold me to the pattern Thou hast planned.
Pastor Chido Iroham.