"By Implication"

"Who sent tokens and wonders into the midst of thee, O Egypt, upon Pharaoh, and upon all his servants." (Psalms 135:9)

  What is it that we are talking about here? Quite frankly, it is about the power of God to not only change someone, but to persuade them to be changed, whether they like it or not. If you know the history of what had happened, the LORD hardened Pharaoh's heart, over and over, until it was so hard, that the slug-hammer of God could finally break it; and break it He did. Was it the death of the first born that broke it? Nope! Maybe at first it could have been; but after the morning had past, he hardened even more, enough to really think that he could take on the God of Israel. Man, O man, was he in for a grave surprise! To get right down to it, this is about something all together different than it might seem. We look at this thinking it is just about Egypt, when, if we look at it in a spiritual sense, this is about God deliverance of His children from the grip of the world; the powers that be, those of the devil and his companions that will not stop until they do all that they can to destroy God's children. When you look at the message, Egypt is a representation of the world; Israel is representing you and me, whom God has delivered from the bondage of this fallen world. But this world has a ruler, although temporary as he might be, he is the ruler, in limited capacity. Which is easy to see, in the story told here, by how the ruler represented in Pharaoh, was very limited in what he could actually do against God's children. The time it took for God to deliver His children from the grip of this world was very short, compared to the time it took to get His children's grip off the world. Isn't that how it is? We only hold onto the sins that we still like; those things that still give us pleasure thinking about, plotting and planing ways to get away with them. There is no shortage of help in that regard; because even though the devil cannot read your mind, he can still read your actions. It just so happens, "servants," imply those that worship, meaning those that serve because they call themselves servants, by not only their actions, but by their loyalty to whomever they serve. Idols are anything that we raise up, worship, or otherwise serve, other than God! Seems like an implication; which, if you define what that means, it can mean a likely consequence of something, or better yet, the action or state of being involved in something. I think it is best to be involved in being delivered; as in, what is it I need to do to assist my Lord; to be totally loyal to Him...

""Listen to me, you who know right from wrong, you who cherish my law in your hearts. Do not be afraid of people's scorn, nor fear their insults. For the moth will devour them as it devours clothing. The worm will eat at them as it eats wool. But my righteousness will last forever. My salvation will continue from generation to generation." Wake up, wake up, O LORD! Clothe yourself with strength! Flex your mighty right arm! Rouse yourself as in the days of old when you slew Egypt, the dragon of the Nile." (Isaiah 51:7-9) NLT