Thurs.’s Devo - Water to Blood

Read Ex. 7:15-25 Everywhere Moses went he took his rod. His rod represented God’s arm. When Moses extended his rod, God was extending his arm and power went out. God has given us the Word of God which is our rod and our sword. Today God told Moses to take his rod and strike the water and the water would be turned to blood. All the fish in the river would die and it would stink which will make the Egyptians disgusted to drink it. Not only in the Nile River but also in their streams, rivers, pools and in their wooden vessels and in their stone vessels. In other words, all water turned to blood. Moses did this in front of the Pharaoh and, not to be outdone: the Egyptian sorcerers, Jannes and Jambres (2 Tim. 3:8) mimicked the same feat on a smaller scale. They just couldn’t turn the blood back to water. Once again Pharaoh hardened his heart and went back to his palace. The Egyptians had to dig around the water to try to find water to drink. This went on for a week. So the first plague was aimed at their national god - the Nile. Each trial addressed a different god that the Egyptian people worshipped. How disgusting and humbling it must have been to let their god afflict them like this. This affected their comfort zone in a big way. I can’t imagine how that would affect us if we had no water to drink, shower with, water our yards, etc. We complain when they ask us to watch how much water we use in the summer. God did this so that it would affect every single person in the province so all could see the glory of God and choose to repent. When Jesus came he turned the water to wine! In Revelation 16:2-6 God sent 7 angels down to earth to judge it. The second angel poured out his vial in the sea and it became blood and it killed everything in the sea. The third angel poured the contents of her vial in the rivers and fountains of waters and they became blood. In the 6th verse it tell why. They had killed the saints and prophets and now they were having to drink their blood. So I wonder if the blood the Egyptians were having to drink was the blood of all the Hebrews they had killed through the ages. Lord, how thankful we are that we don’t have to drink the blood of our sins, we just have to apply yours. Cover us with your blood and give us refreshing water to drink from your words.