From Rabbi Jack...
Exodus {15:22} "So Moses brought Israel from the Red Sea; then they went out into the Wilderness of Shur. And they went three days in the wilderness and found no water. {15:23} Now when they came to Marah, they could not drink the waters of Marah, for they were bitter. Therefore, the name of it was called Marah. {15:24} And the people complained against Moses, saying, "What shall we drink?" {15:25} So he cried out to the Lord, and the Lord showed him a tree. When he cast it into the waters, the waters were made sweet. There He made a statute and an ordinance for them. And there He tested them, …."
It is obvious that God brought the children of Israel to Marah to test them. God is always going to test His children. The Children of Israel had already seen the miracle of the ten plagues, the miracle of the gifts bestowed on them by the Egyptians, the parting of the Red Sea and the drowning of Pharaoh's army in the sea. Now, after wandering about for a while in the wilderness their water was running low, they were thirsting, their cattle were thirsting and, in the distance, they saw a pool of water only to arrive and find that the water was undrinkable. From the Scripture passages we can see two opposite end results of testing. The children of Israel complained and received no revelation from God and Moses prayed and the Lord gave Him the solution to the problem. There is not a problem or a test that God does not have the solution for, however, if all we do is complain He will never reveal it to us; try praying instead!
Hi Ellen here…
I was reading and thinking on the Scripture in Matthew concerning coming to Yeshua like a little child. Kids, we love them and their innocence and we are a little envious of it! Children have such freedom in the spirit and in the physical. What I am trying to express is that children are humble, forgiving, not seeking a position higher than who they just are. They are trusting that their parents and siblings will protect them and instruct them in the way they should go and not lead them astray. I remember as a child my oldest sister would take care of me as if I were her child. My middle sister and I played and shared together and our parents did not put stumbling blocks in our paths that we should fall. This is how we should come to Yeshua.
What I would like to say to you today is this…stop analyzing and contriving everything, stop seeking to be someone else because God made you as you are and He loves you so much! Shed the skin of the world. Don't worry about what you should eat or what you should wear. Stop and give it to God and come to Him as His little child.
Yours in Messiah Yeshua; our Lord, our God, our soon coming King.
Rabbi Jack & Ellen
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