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Day by Day Devotional - Year 1 of 5
Exodus 7:14-25
If the Egyptians do not take notice of the first two signs, the LORD had said to Moses, then there will be a third and really solemn sign: that of water being changed into blood. Water speaks to us of that which is refreshing and gives life, while shed blood is death. The Word has been given to man to bring him life. But if he does not receive it and refuses to believe, the same Word will become for him judgment and death (read John 12:48). Today it proclaims grace, but also judgment for those who do not receive it. Everyone will come up against it in one way or another, either now in the present for life, or later on for death!
That which the LORD had spoken came to pass for the Egyptians. The Nile, the vital artery of their country, and of which they had made a god for themselves, now became an object of disgust and revulsion. Blood fills the river, the canals, the ponds, and even the mud banks. All the springs at which the world slakes its thirst are poisoned and deadly (v. 18). Let us avoid drinking from them! On this occasion also the magicians do the same with their enchantments. By the power of Satan they imitate that which brings death for the sole result of increasing the misery of the people. They would have done a lot better to have shown their skill by changing the blood into water. But that they were incapable of doing.
