Father God, You turned dust into warning, and silence into testimony. When pride refused to listen, You made even the smallest speak. Help us not to ignore Your voice in the ordinary, the overlooked, the tiny irritations that stir us awake. Let our hearts be soft, our ears open, our lives ready to respond. Love You, thank You, praise You and give You all the honor and glory in Jesus Precious name Amen.

(The Third Plague, Gnats (or Lice) God tells Moses to have Aaron strike the dust with his staff. The dust becomes gnats, covering people and animals. Egyptian magicians fail to replicate this plague and say, “This is the finger of God.” Yet Pharaoh’s heart remains hard.

It reads in Exodus 8:16–19 Easy:  Then the Lord said to Moses, ‘Say to Aaron, “Lift up your stick and hit the dirt on the ground. It will become gnats in the whole land of Egypt.”  Moses and Aaron obeyed God. Aaron lifted up his hand, and he hit the dirt with his stick. The dirt became gnats that flew onto all the people and onto all the animals. The dirt on the ground became gnats all over Egypt. Then the Egyptian magicians tried to use their magic to make gnats appear. But they could not do it. The gnats were on all the people and on all the animals. Then the magicians said to Pharaoh, ‘This is the work of God.’ But there was no change in Pharaoh’s thoughts. He would not listen to them. The Lord had said that this would happen, and it did!