The whole Israelite community set out…traveling from place to place as the Lord commanded. They camped…but there was no water for the people to drink. So, they quarreled with Moses and said, “Give us water to drink.” Moses replied, “Why do you quarrel with me? Why do you put the Lord to the test?” But the people were thirsty for water there, and they grumbled against Moses. They said, “Why did you bring us up out of Egypt to make us and our children and livestock die of thirst?” (Exodus 17:1–3, NIV 1984).
My Musings – Here we go again. This time it is water to quench their thirst and keep them hydrated in their wilderness wanderings. And once again it is. “Why did you bring us up out of Egypt?” When in Egypt, the people “groaned in their slavery and cried out, and their cry for help because of their slavery went up to God. God heard their groaning, and he remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac and with Jacob. So, God looked on the Israelites and was concerned about them.” (Exodus 2:23–25, NIV 1984).
But, once again (remember the quail and the manna), their current circumstances make them want to go back to the very place they cried out to be freed from. A fickle people. Not all that different than you or me. We tend to believe that the grass is always greener on the other side of the fence, but once there and things are not quite what we expected, we long to return. Forgetting why we wanted to leave in the first place.
My Advice – “Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again, but whoever drinks the water I [Jesus] give him will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life.” (John 4:13–14, NIV 1984). Whether during our “desert” wanderings, in places of bondage, or enjoying ourselves in a “land of milk and honey,” drink from the “water” Christ offers and you’ll never thirst. Let’s not lose heart on these things, rather let’s rejoice and count our blessings, for what He has already provided,
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