That you might know - Exodus 9-12

What does God have to do to get our attention? Does He have to write a message in the sky? Does He have to only whisper? What does He have to do to let us know that He is GOD? That He is mighty? That He is Powerful? In these passages recorded by Moses we have the story of God making Himself known to the Egyptians and to Moses, Aaron and the Israelites. On numerous occasions in these chapters God tells them that He is performing all these miracles and doing all this damage to the world, "so that you might know that I am God!" It seems God's Word wasn't sufficient to let them know who He was. God sent Moses to the nation of Israel and Egypt and told him and Arron to simply say, " 'I AM' sent you!" Yet, that wasn't enough. God simply stating who He is never seems to be enough. Everyone wants a miracle or proof that God is who He says He is. So, here, in this section we have miracle after miracle and power after power. Yet, after each demonstration of His great power, Pharaoh, at least, would not believe and submit. He only gave lip service while the difficult was present. But, when the tragedy past, he went right on worshipping himself and other gods. (That is so true today for people. We reduce God to nothing more than a "spare tire." When we get a flat we pull Him out and fix the problem and then put Him back in the trunk.) Finally, to get their ultimate attention, God uses Satan's ultimate tool against the very followers of Satan - Death. When God takes the first born from among them that is the ultimate attention getter. Today God uses numerous tools to get us to notice He is powerful, deserving of worship and wants to love us. But, death is the ultimate attention getter still today. When a life is gone we tend to pay attention to God. More closely, I suppose, is that we pay attention when someone is dying. God uses many things to get our attention. He has little things that nudge us to toward Him. He has some big things that are designed to wake us up and notice His power and give Him honor and praise. But, sometimes He uses the ultimate attention getter of death. It would have been nice for Pharaoh to wake up and see God with just a nudge. But Pharaoh, like a lot of people today, needed the full weight of God's attention getter. What do you need?