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Reflect on these scriptures, allowing the Spirit to speak to your heart.

Psalm 73:1-3, 13-14, 16-17

Surely God is good to Israel, to those who are pure in heart. But as for me, my feet had almost slipped; I had nearly lost my foothold. For I envied the arrogant when I saw the prosperity of the wicked. Surely in vain I have kept my heart pure and have washed my hands in innocence. All day long I have been afflicted, and every morning brings new punishments. When I tried to understand all this, it troubled me deeply till I entered the sanctuary of God; then I understood their final destiny.

Exodus 8:1-8

Then the Lord said to Moses, \u201cGo to Pharaoh and say to him, \u2018This is what the Lord says: Let my people go, so that they may worship me. If you refuse to let them go, I will send a plague of frogs on your whole country. The Nile will teem with frogs. They will come up into your palace and your bedroom and onto your bed, into the houses of your officials and on your people, and into your ovens and kneading troughs. The frogs will come up on you and your people and all your officials.\u2019\u201d

Then the Lord said to Moses, \u201cTell Aaron, \u2018Stretch out your hand with your staff over the streams and canals and ponds, and make frogs come up on the land of Egypt.\u2019\u201d So Aaron stretched out his hand over the waters of Egypt, and the frogs came up and covered the land. But the magicians did the same things by their secret arts; they also made frogs come up on the land of Egypt. Pharaoh summoned Moses and Aaron and said, \u201cPray to the Lord to take the frogs away from me and my people, and I will let your people go to offer sacrifices to the Lord.\u201d

Hebrews 11:23-29

By faith Moses\u2019 parents hid him for three months after he was born, because they saw he was no ordinary child, and they were not afraid of the king\u2019s edict. By faith Moses, when he had grown up, refused to be known as the son of Pharaoh\u2019s daughter. He chose to be mistreated along with the people of God rather than to enjoy the fleeting pleasures of sin. He regarded disgrace for the sake of Christ as of greater value than the treasures of Egypt, because he was looking ahead to his reward. By faith he left Egypt, not fearing the king\u2019s anger; he persevered because he saw him who is invisible. By faith he kept the Passover and the application of blood, so that the destroyer of the firstborn would not touch the firstborn of Israel. By faith the people passed through the Red Sea as on dry land; but when the Egyptians tried to do so, they were drowned.

John 11:21-27

\u201cLord,\u201d Martha said to Jesus, \u201cif you had been here, my brother would not have died. But I know that even now God will give you whatever you ask.\u201d Jesus said to her, \u201cYour brother will rise again.\u201d Martha answered, \u201cI know he will rise again in the resurrection at the last day.\u201d Jesus said to her, \u201cI am the resurrection and the life. The one who believes in me will live, even though they die; and whoever lives by believing in me will never die. Do you believe this?\u201d \u201cYes, Lord,\u201d she replied, \u201cI believe that you are the Messiah, the Son of God, who is to come into the world.\u201d

Prayer

Merciful Lord, forgive your people from our offences, that through your abundant goodness we may all be delivered from the chains of those sins which by our weakness we have committed; make it so, heavenly Father, for Jesus Christ's sake, our blessed Lord and Saviour, who is alive and reigns with you, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen.