The Finger and Hand of God

 Exodus 6-8; Luke 23 

“…Aaron stretched out his hand with the staff and struck the dust of the ground…The magicians said to Pharaoh, ‘This is the finger of God.’”

Exodus 8:17, 19

“Jesus called out with a loud voice, ‘Father, into your hands I commit my Spirit.’ When he had said this, he breathed his last.”

Luke 23:46

Pharaoh’s magicians matched the first two plagues of blood and frogs through their magic arts; but, at the plague of gnats, they declared this was the ‘finger of God’. God’s judgment of Egypt’s idols and idolatrous worship included turning the dust of the ground into gnats. The same dust that was cursed in Genesis 3 now covered the ceremonially clean Egyptian priests and defiled them so they were unable to perform their rituals. The same hand of God which created man from the dust of the earth, judged Egypt with that dust. God’s judgment of sin was fully realized in the death of Jesus Christ on the cross. His final recorded words were, “Father, into your hands I commit my spirit” (Luke 23:46). It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God, yet when we willingly offer our lives into those hands, there is no better place to be. 

Pharaoh resisted the hand of God, will we?

“Father God, into your hands I commit my spirit and ask that your hand be upon my life. Thank you for your discipline, guidance, provision, and protection, for your glory.”