Nothing much from Exodus 5,6 and 7, but chapter 8 has proven fruitful. In this chapter we see Pharaoh under seige by a plague of frogs. He eventually agrees to let Moses and the Israelites leave the land, and Moses asks him when he wants the frogs to disappear, to which Pharaoh replies "Tomorrow" (Ex 8:10).
John Ortberg, in 'God Is Closer than you Think', writes about just how crazy this reply of Pharaoh's was; here's a whole nation completely weighed down by frogs everywhere and yet the main man doesn't want to get rid of them right away. Why? Ortberg argues it is because they are bearable,and claims that people will always put up with things whilst they can. He says we become anaesthatised to our own sins and bad habits because they are bearable, and calls us to evaluate our lives and cut off all the bits that are bad, not just put up with them because we can.
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