While the plagues are in full force Pharaoh “repents” and promises to release the Israelites, but as soon as it eases he turns on his word.  Fake repentances and empty promises.  That is so much like Satan – the master of empty promises.  If Eve had any idea what she was “biting off” she would have driven that serpent away.  And still, so many in the world today have sold their souls to the Devil, still in pursuit of his… empty promises. 

How often though, in the heat of a crisis, or even in the height of intense emotion we make deals and promises that, once the smoke clears, we shamelessly renege on?  We too on the guise of false repentances do make empty promises.  But the amazing thing is that notwithstanding his many vain utterances, Pharaoh still received multiple opportunities to make good on his word.  Praise the Lord, He is still longsuffering toward us, and though we have failed miserably in the past, we still have an opportunity to have experience genuine repentance and yet honour our promises to Him and to others.

Father in Heaven, in the name of Jesus Christ our Lord and Saviour we beg you to search us and know our hearts, try us and know our thoughts.  Then perform Your divine surgery and create in each of us a clean heart and a renewed spirit.  May we not become hardened through the vicissitudes of encounters with Holy Spirit; change our hearts of stone into ones of flesh.  These are Your rich promises which we claim in the name of Jesus.  Amen.

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