Who is the Lord that I should obey His voice?

 by David Long

"And afterward Moses and Aaron went in, and told Pharaoh, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Let my people go, that they may hold a feast unto me in the wilderness. And Pharaoh said, Who is the LORD, that I should obey his voice to let Israel go? I know not the LORD, neither will I let Israel go" (Exod. 5:1-2). Pharaoh would learn the hard way who the Lord was and why he should obey His voice. He would finally let Israel go but in his hard heart he would pursue after them only to die in the Red Sea. 

Dear reader, do you know who the Lord is and why you should obey His voice? Don't be like Pharaoh and perish in your hardness of heart.