This is the hard part about God that we don't understand. Everyone of us wants to imagine God and Nice.. .and Gentle.. ALL THE TIME. Never in the bible does it say God is Nice. God is good... all the time... that is true. Good is a strange word, but cause He is GOOD for the Kingdom of God. He has the BIG picture in mind.
In today's read it was the plague of the first born of the Egyptians. I would not wish that on my worst enemy... I honestly do love people, I don't want bad people, good people... anyone to suffer pain... especially through the loss of a child.
But God is good. We have to trust that God has a plan in all things. When I lost a very close friend I struggled and struggled with this. How could God be Good by killing someone I love? How could God be Good by killing children? What I came to was that we live in a fallen world... it became that way at the bite of an apple, and from there evil came into our lives. God allows things to happen for the greater good. He allows us to choose things, even if it means pain. And I am NOW ok with that... I do believe God is good.
I do not remember the whole story in Exodus to know why God did that right now... I know he did it to free the Israelite's, but why did he keep hardening Pharaoh's heart??? I'll come back to that when I get to the end of this story - I am SURE God was good even in this.
Till tomorrow!
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