Now all these things
happened unto them for examples: and they are written for our admonition, upon
whom the ends of the ages are come. – 1Co 10:11
There’re only two instances in scripture where
the Israelites queried Moses for water: Ex 17:6 and Num 20:11. But anyone who’s
lived in a house that’s not connected to the public water system will readily
agree that no size of tank is ever big enough to sustain a family; the water
will eventually run out.
So, while the amount of water that gushed out
of the rock that fateful day in Horeb may have been so plenteous as to satisfy
3 million odd persons and their cattle; it most definitely would not have been
enough to sustain them for 37 years (the period of time between the two
separate complaints for water).
So, either there were water bodies littered
everywhere else they went during their journey in the wilderness (a highly
improbable fact), or the water-from-the-rock thing continued for all those
years – just like the daily manna that kept falling from the skies.
Logic, and a certain New Testament reference,
seems to indicate that it was the latter.
1Co 10:4 (GW) says, “and all of them drank the same spiritual drink. They drank from the
spiritual rock that went with them, and that rock was Christ.”
“…the rock that WENT WITH THEM”.
There was always a rock – physically –
everywhere they went, and that rock supplied them water continuously.
But at the first moment that it didn’t – which
some Bible commentators deduce was deliberately done to test them (see Dt 33:8;
Ps 81:7) – all hell breaks loose and they began their characteristic harping
and murmuring.
Beloved, you can live a life so continuously
miraculous, that you begin to take it for granted. There’re Christians who
don’t know the price of paracetamol,
because they’ve not bought it in years, yet they complain because God’s
delaying their ‘breakthrough’. Some don’t experience satanic attacks
whatsoever, and they assume it’s because the witches in the village have their
hands full, or don’t know they exist. I could go on and on about our transport,
our children, our sanity, etc. but I believe you’ve gotten the point already.
Meditate about a ‘regular’ thing in your life
that would be miraculous to someone else – and make up your mind to live
grateful about it from today.
AMEN.
More Blessings await
you today; you’ll not miss them in Jesus’ Name.
GREG ELKAN
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