come across a favorite song from long ago?  Even though you’ve listened

to it many times over, you thoroughly enjoy listening to it again. 

Maybe you even turned the radio up to get the full experience.  Knowing

every word doesn’t make the song boring; instead, it lets you embrace

the song to the fullest. But not everything in our lives is fun to

relive.  Some experiences you’d rather never relive.  And others that

seem good at first turn bitter over time.  As we begin the repetitious

story of plague after plague, we should learn what Pharaoh refused to

learn.  The misery that accompanies some experiences is there to teach

us that we don’t want to resist or fight against the Lord.  Even the

counterfeits that we trusted before seem less and less convincing. 

Pharaoh tries to forget the lessons of his experience, but just sets

himself up for harder times to come.