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Miracle Water

by Jerry Ousley  
8/02/2008 / Christian Living


After mowing the lawn on a hot, sunny afternoon I'm ready for a good cold drink of water. Have you ever had to have your water turned off? There's been several times over the years when we've had to do some do-it-yourselfer plumbing work. Since we only have shut-off valves at certain points in our house that means if you've got to work on it where there isn't a shut-off valve then you've got to turn the whole system off. My luck, when I have to work on it it's usually in one of those places.

It doesn't take much for me to work up a sweat. As I do I get more and more thirsty. When you've got the water shut off that just isn't convenient. Oh, you can grab a coke or something and normally that's what I do. But inevitably I want nothing but good cold water once it is shut off. You know how that goes.

In Exodus 17 we read about a time when the children of Israel ran out of water. They were in the hot, dry desert and folks, to be frank that's a bad place to run out of water. They began to talk about Moses, complaining that he had brought them out of Egypt, a land of plenty, even though they were slaves, into this desert so they could die of thirst. It was bad enough, that when Moses took the situation to God, he said in so many words, "Lord, they're mad at me and I think they're going to stone me to death!"

Basically God told Moses that there was nothing to worry about (I mean, why should anyone worry when they have God protecting them?) but to take the rod that had been used to part the Red Sea and go to a certain rock taking the leaders of Israel with him. Now that should have reminded the people of Israel about something very significant. It had only been a few days before when they had seen Moses with that rod. They were ready to stone him that time too because he had led them to the edge of the Red Sea and Pharaoh's army was closing in fast behind them. Moses, at the direction of God, had stretched that rod out towards the sea and the wind began to blow. It blew all night and the next morning there was a dry path between two enormous walls of water. The people of Israel walked across on dry land and then witnessed as Moses had once again stretched the rod out and the walls of water came crashing down on the pursuing Egyptian army. I think I would have been real still as he walked through camp holding that rod.

He went to the rock God had told him about along with the elders of the nation. As God had commanded him to do, he struck the rock with the rod and water began gushing out. Can you imagine that Water from a rock! I want to point out that with all the men mentioned who had come out of Egypt along with the women, children and the mixed crowd that came out with them, it has been estimated that there were in excess of one million people there. That's a lot of water to get from a rock!

They appropriately named the place "Massah and Merribah" which means "tempted" and "contentious." The people quickly forgot the miracle of the Red Sea and when their thirst got the best of them they yielded to temptation and became contentious.

But before we get too quick in judging them for it, let's remember some of the times we have yielded to temptation and become contentious ourselves. Are we guilty of complaining about things we shouldn't complain about? If we are, we might just find ourselves in a place with water gushing from a rock.

Jerry D. Ousley is the author of ?Soul Challenge?, ?Soul Journey?, ?Ordeal?, ?The Spirit Bread Daily Devotional and his first novel ?The Shoe Tree.? Visit our website at spiritbread.com to download these and more completely free of charge.

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