Day 34 - Tuesday after the Fourth Sunday after the Epiphany
Read | Day 34 | Tuesday | February 3 | Exodus 7:14 - 9:35
Dates | 1446 or 1280 BC
Dates | 1446 or 1280 BC
Reading | Pharaoh will not listen to God and God's message of liberation; his magicians are doing the same acts and he does not listen to God.
Plague 1: Blood - both rivers of life, water and blood, are polluted by mixing of each other. Both are used to change the mind of the king.
Plague 2: frogs - get into everything - Moses finally gets feed up with them and asks God for relief from them and God hears Moses.
Plague 3: gnats - get into everything - even magicians admit that this plague is the figure of God but the king does not listen.
Plague 4: flies - flies in Egypt but not in Goshen. Pharaoh relents but changes his mind and will not let the people go.
Plague 5: death of livestock - died in Egypt not in Goshen.
Plague 6: boils - both on people and livestock in Egypt - God harden the king's heart and the king would not let the people go.
Plague 7: hail - beats down everything except in Goshen. The king recants, asks Moses for relief, Moses gives relief but king would not let people go.
How does this reading inform my faith? How does this reading inform my service as a disciple of Christ?
Source | Daily Reading Guide | The One Year ® Chronological Bible | Tyndale, 2013 | Click here | pp. 128 - 132
Next | Day 35 | Wednesday | February 4 | Exodus 10:1 - 12:51
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Hymn: A mighty fortress is our God
A mighty fortress is our God, a bulwark never failing;
Our helper He, amid the flood of mortal ills prevailing:
For still our ancient foe doth seek to work us woe;
His craft and power are great, and, armed with cruel hate,
On earth is not his equal.
Our helper He, amid the flood of mortal ills prevailing:
For still our ancient foe doth seek to work us woe;
His craft and power are great, and, armed with cruel hate,
On earth is not his equal.
Did we in our strength confide, our striving would be losing;
Were not the right Man on our side, the Man of God’s own choosing:
Dost ask who that may be? Christ Jesus, it is He;
Lord Sabaoth, His Name, from age to age the same,
And He must win the battle.
Were not the right Man on our side, the Man of God’s own choosing:
Dost ask who that may be? Christ Jesus, it is He;
Lord Sabaoth, His Name, from age to age the same,
And He must win the battle.
That word above all earthly powers, no thanks to them, abideth;
The Spirit and the gifts are ours through Him Who with us sideth:
Let goods and kindred go, this mortal life also;
The body they may kill: God’s truth abideth still,
His kingdom is forever.
The Spirit and the gifts are ours through Him Who with us sideth:
Let goods and kindred go, this mortal life also;
The body they may kill: God’s truth abideth still,
His kingdom is forever.
Music: Ein feste Burg | Words: Martin Luther
Singer: Steve Nekias | Words: William Chatterton Dix
A Prayer Attributed to St. Francis
Lord, make us instruments of your peace. Where there is hatred, let us sow love; where there is injury, pardon; where there is discord, union; where there is doubt, faith; where there is despair, hope; where there is darkness, light; where there is sadness, joy. Grant that we may not so much seek to be consoled as to console; to be understood as to understand; to be loved as to love. For it is in giving that we receive; it is in pardoning that we are pardoned; and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life. Amen.
Source | Morning Office in English | Mission St Clare | Book of Common Prayer | Click here for today
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