SPRING FORTH NOW 2024

Wednesday, August 7, 2024

And all the congregation of the children of Israel journeyed from the wilderness of Sin, after their journeys, according to the commandment of the LORD, and pitched in Rephidim: and there was no water for the people to drink. Wherefore the people did chide with Moses, and said, Give us water that we may drink. And Moses said unto them, Why chide ye with me? wherefore do ye tempt the LORD? And the people thirsted there for water; and the people murmured against Moses, and said, Wherefore is this that thou hast brought us up out of Egypt, to kill us and our children and our cattle with thirst? And Moses cried unto the LORD, saying, What shall I do unto this people? they be almost ready to stone me. And the LORD said unto Moses, Go on before the people, and take with thee of the elders of Israel; and thy rod, wherewith thou smotest the river, take in thine hand, and go. Behold, I will stand before thee there upon the rock in Horeb; and thou shalt smite the rock, and there shall come water out of it, that the people may drink. And Moses did so in the sight of the elders of Israel. And he called the name of the place Massah, and Meribah, because of the chiding of the children of Israel, and because they tempted the LORD, saying, Is the LORD among us, or not?

Exodus 17:1-7

One of the hardest things to do in life is to wait in particular to wait on the Lord.  God gives us assignments and with faith and confidence we proceed to Open Up The Way to those promises fulfilled but it appears God takes His own sweet time and it does not always align with the immediate, straightway we are looking for.  However, when we stop worrying about the time and remember we are in the care of the One, who is above time, we can Let Go And Let God.  God does not have to operate or come in the way we want Him to or what we know as natural or normal, God creates ways to blow our minds, even pathways in the wilderness and waters in the desert.  God can command a rock to give water amid the people complaining and confirming that they are in a desert condition with no possibility of water, all that is required is that you Let Go And Let God!