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God hardened Pharaoh’s heart

to make God’s glory shine.

 

A man was born blind

so that God’s glory

may be made manifest.

 

The difficulties in your life

are there on purpose,

to make you really take notice

when you overcome them.

 

Moses had to go before Pharaoh

10 times

to ask him to let the Israelites leave.

God warned him,

told him,

repeatedly that God was going

to make it difficult.

 

Think of all the things

you do

all the time

that are for the good.

Not the things you do

to pump up yourself,

but the things you do

for God.

Often it feels like you are

singing the “hole in the bucket” song.

You have to get one thing

right or fixed

before you can do

another part.

It is never straightforward

and it is never easy.

When you finally

push through

you really get a sense of accomplishment.

 

God does this to us.

It isn’t an accident.

We grow from it.

It strengthens us,

teaches us.  Our bones

get stronger,

not our skin.

We don’t get hardened

against the world,

we get toughened

so that we

can heal the world.