
23/08/2025
🚨THE SCARIEST SILENCE IS WHEN GOD STOPS CALLING.⚠
Pharaoh’s story in Exodus has unsettled many.
That one line — “God hardened his heart” — sounds chilling. Almost unjust.
Was Pharaoh set up to fall?
He was raised in Egyptian luxury, shaped by power and pride, praised as a living god.
He had never heard the voice of Yahweh — not in childhood, not in counsel.
So when Moses arrived with a message from a foreign God, resistance was expected.
But this story isn’t about a man trapped by ignorance.
It’s about someone who was repeatedly shown mercy — and rejected it.
Ten plagues. Ten clear chances. But none were taken.
Water turned to blood.
Frogs swarmed the cities.
Gnats irritated the land.
Flies darkened the skies.
Livestock died.
Boils broke out.
Hail crashed down.
Locusts devoured the fields.
Darkness covered Egypt.
And finally — the firstborn died.
Each act wasn’t just a judgment.
It was an invitation to surrender.
To soften.
To turn.
But Pharaoh chose defiance.
Again and again.
Eventually, the warnings stopped.
God stopped calling.
Not because He ran out of power, but because Pharaoh ran out of willingness.
And when truth is resisted long enough, even mercy steps back.
That’s the scariest part.
The silence didn’t fall in anger — it fell in sorrow.
Because hearts aren’t hardened in a single act of rebellion.
They’re hardened one ignored conviction at a time.
And when the day comes that truth no longer stirs you —
when sin no longer grieves you —
when God no longer speaks…
It isn’t always because He’s finished with you.
It’s often because you were finished listening.
Yet there’s still hope.
If your heart still wonders...
If tears still come when conviction hits...
If something in you still aches when truth is spoken —
then God is still reaching.
📖 “Today, if you hear His voice, do not harden your hearts…” (Hebrews 3:15)
Don’t wait for the silence.
Ten plagues. Ten clear chances. But Pharaoh’s heart grew harder.
Let that not be your story.
“Thou hast forsaken me, saith the LORD, thou art gone backward: therefore will I stretch out my hand against thee, and destroy thee; I am weary with repenting” (Jeremiah 15:6)