Day 28...Pharoah and Herod..."How Not to Lead"

Pharoah pushed much harder when he heard Moses's request of God to ..."let my people go."
We are going to see how blind and hard hearted Pharoah is the next few days. This always opens up the question of whether or not Pharoah had a choice-like Judas in the New Testament.
...More on this later. Herod does even worse. A birthday request for John the Baptist's head is one of the goriest scenes in the New Testament. The inspiration today came from the Psalmist...
" The Lord is my strength and my shield;in him my heart trusts, and I am helped;my heart exults,and with my song I give thanks to him." One of my favorite stories "the feeding of the five thousand" teaches God always does provide. This is at least the second specific time of this same message. The other time was "the ram in the thicket" with Abraham and Isaac. Hope you enjoyed the shorter reading today. We will have a few days like this along the voyage.