If you’ve ever been in the unfortunate position of having your supervisor tell you that you no longer have a job, you know from experience how difficult that can be. You probably didn’t see that moment as an opportunity to ‘negotiate’. Maybe when you were hired, or after a very good year, you asked for more than was offered. But negotiation requires some kind of standing or leverage, and when you’re being let go, you have neither. Pharaoh has been shown that he truly has no leverage or standing before God Almighty. God sends two more plagues, and the Egyptian magicians can’t reproduce them (let alone stop the plagues God sends). Yet Pharaoh tries to negotiate with God. Before we jump to some kind of judgment on him, let’s ask ourselves if we do something similar with our Lord. Do we try to offer less than He asks for?