#146 Ribbit Exodus 8

Then the Lord said to Moses, “Go back to Pharaoh and announce to him, ‘This is what the Lord says: Let my people go, so they can worship me. 2 If you refuse to let them go, I will send a plague of frogs across your entire land. 3 The Nile River will swarm with frogs. They will come up out of the river and into your palace, even into your bedroom and onto your bed! They will enter the houses of your officials and your people. They will even jump into your ovens and your kneading bowls. 4 Frogs will jump on you, your people, and all your officials.’”

5 [b]Then the Lord said to Moses, “Tell Aaron, ‘Raise the staff in your hand over all the rivers, canals, and ponds of Egypt, and bring up frogs over all the land.’” 6 So Aaron raised his hand over the waters of Egypt, and frogs came up and covered the whole land!7 But the magicians were able to do the same thing with their magic. They, too, caused frogs to come up on the land of Egypt.

8 Then Pharaoh summoned Moses and Aaron and begged, “Plead with the Lord to take the frogs away from me and my people. I will let your people go, so they can offer sacrifices to the Lord.”

9 “You set the time!” Moses replied. “Tell me when you want me to pray for you, your officials, and your people. Then you and your houses will be rid of the frogs. They will remain only in the Nile River.”

10 “Do it tomorrow,” Pharaoh said.

“All right,” Moses replied, “it will be as you have said. Then you will know that there is no one like the Lord our God. 11 The frogs will leave you and your houses, your officials, and your people. They will remain only in the Nile River.”

12 So Moses and Aaron left Pharaoh’s palace, and Moses cried out to the Lord about the frogs he had inflicted on Pharaoh. 13 And the Lord did just what Moses had predicted. The frogs in the houses, the courtyards, and the fields all died. 14 The Egyptians piled them into great heaps, and a terrible stench filled the land. 15 But when Pharaoh saw that relief had come, he became stubborn.[c] He refused to listen to Moses and Aaron, just as the Lord had predicted. Exodus 8: 1-15 

I love frogs, but I suppose you can have too much of a good thing. Frogs jumping into your bed, your food and the shear magnitude of their numbers - everywhere a frog under foot. The noise outside your window is quite lovely at night, but even something so small, as a cricket inside the house, will wake a man. A thousand frogs where they should not be, it was enough for Pharaoh to plead with Moses. He agrees to let the people go, but as soon as their is light at the end of the tunnel, of that which plagues him, he recants. How many times have we cried out to a God we haven't tried to know, except in the times of our crying. I am not invincible it would appear, I am sick, I have been wronged, and now oh God of the downs, please hear me. When I was well and prosperous, I could not have thanked myself enough. Ah, the lowliness I should have felt. The humble adoration I could have shown. I was not the least perplexed, for I felt deserving, and when everything came crashing down I made a grand show of the alter. But things are not looking so bad now, and once again I assure those surrounding me at the water cooler, that it could be nothing short of genius on my part. The frogs are gone, and I am sure there is a logical reason for all of this, so I am no longer inclined to beg for mercy. There is no knowledge here, lest it be given, and no heart lest it be made flesh. 

51 You stubborn and hardheaded people! You are always fighting against the Holy Spirit, just as your ancestors did. 52 Is there one prophet that your ancestors didn’t mistreat? They killed the prophets who told about the coming of the One Who Obeys God.[a] And now you have turned against him and killed him. 53 Angels gave you God’s Law, but you still don’t obey it. Acts 7:51-53