Dear Family,
Today is Wednesday, April 27, 2022. This is Day 4 of Week 2. It is our 11th Day of Count to Pentecost.
God knew Israel needed water as they trekked through the wilderness, and He was ready.
Matthew 6:8 Be not ye therefore like unto them: for your Father knoweth what things ye have need of, before ye ask him.
Walking for three days from the Red Sea and finding no water simply intensified the imminent test facing Israel. Could it be that God’s leading Israel to the water at Marah was part of His plan to bless them even more than He had already blessed them?
God knew how the water at Marah tasted. He also knew He had the antidote to sweeten the water ready, close by. What God wanted was for Israel to trust Him as the Deliverer and the Provider. He wanted them to become aware of their need, to realize that God wanted/intended to provide their need, to ask humbly for what they needed, and then to be thankful when they received it.
However, it looks like Israel just wanted God to perform…automatically.
Have you ever considered the idea that God actually created us to have both needs and longings?
The cyclical nature of many of our needs and desires is no accident. God has designed us to have desires and needs that He earnestly wants to provide for us.
Psalm 145:16 Thou openest thine hand, and satisfiest the desire of every living thing.
What He requires is for us to ask in a particular manner! When we ask properly and He provides, we form a bond to Him. God is THE GIVER of all givers. And, there is no end to His store of resources. When He withholds, He does it with deliberate intent to get our attention and teach us something important.
At Marah, Moses knew exactly what to do. He went to God! And, God provided.
Exodus 15:24-25 (24) And the people murmured against Moses, saying; What shall we drink? (25) And he cried unto the LORD; and the LORD shewed him a tree, which when he had cast into the waters, the waters were made sweet: there he made for them a statute and an ordinance, and there he proved them.
Ben Faulkner, Pastor
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