If you're in Egypt, and you look at Goshen, where the Israelites live, and you see zero flies, and you are surrounded by them, what's your thought? How do you deal with that? One reaction is to hope that the flies make it to the Israelites. The other is to go and see out of curiosity, to assume that the God of the Israelites is demonstrating authority over all of nature, and to ask a lot of questions.
One takeaway from all of this is to live our lives in such a way that other people see something different. They see hope, and it shines like a light in a dreary world.
Another is that we should ask big questions. We're blessed to have the writings of Christians throughout the centuries that we can read to know how other people dealt with similar problems that we face. We can ask big questions of these Christians. We can also reach out to one another and ask how people deal with the things that we face. What's it like to live in the light? To be in a place unplagued by flies?
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