Exodus 7 – What God does to make us obey Him
God destroys the things we trust in The first plague that God inflicted on Pharaoh was one that destroyed the things he trusted in. Exodus 7:17 Now the Lord says, "You are going to find out that I am the Lord." Look! I will hit the water of the Nile with this staff, and the river will turn to blood. 18The fish in it will die, and the river will stink. The Egyptians will not be able to drink any water from the Nile.’" The Nile River was the source of life for the Egyptians. The Egyptians depicted the Nile as Hapi, a fat man with breasts of a woman, which symbolized the powers of fertility. They sang a hymn to this god which went something like this: Thou waterest the…