Moses went up on the mountain to meet with God. And there was fire, and the whole mountain trembled greatly – as did all the people, in fear. Sinai, they camped before the mountain where there were thunders and lightnings and a thick cloud on the mountain and a very loud trumpet blast. This time, when Moses brought the need to the Lord, He supplied water out of the Rock, when Moses struck it, and named the place Meribah – Exod.17:17.ġ0. When they began their journey again, it didn’t take long before they ran out of water once again, and grumbled against Moses. So God provided them with manna, and then with quail. “It would have been better if the Lord had killed us in the land of Egypt, where we had plenty of meat and bread to eat, than to you have you bring us into is wilderness to kill this whole assembly with hunger.” Exodus 16:3Ĩ. Next the people began to complain about having nothing to eat. And Moses cried to the Lord and the Lord supplied water by healing a poisonous pool and leading them to a place of springs. And the thirsty people began to grumble against Moses at Marah.
And after three days they hadn’t found any water, and their supplies were gone.Ħ. But then the Israelites set out on a journey to Sinai (Exod.15-18).ĥ. This is followed by a great celebration with singing and dancing (Exod.15).Ĥ. Then the sea is released and the Egyptian army drowns.ģ. The climax of that story is after the ten plagues when they come to the Red Sea (Exod.14) and God parts the waters so they walk through on dry ground. God sent Moses to deliver the Israelites out of Egypt.Ģ. But let’s review the story of Israel in the wilderness, from Exod.15 to Deut.ġ. The story takes dozens of chapters of the Bible, so we can’t read it all.Ĭ. And the story of Israel’s wandering in the wilderness is one of those parts of Scripture.ī. But surely some Scripture is especially profitable for teaching us to live in this world. 2Timothy 3:16-17 tells us that all Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for equipping us to live in this world. Today we are talking about Israel in the wilderness.ģ. We’ve already covered Abraham, Moses and Noah.Ģ.
#LORD INTO THE WILDERNESS HOW TO#
Our 2021 summer series is stories from the Bible which help us learn how to live in this world.ġ. Yes, I will make rivers in the dry wastelandĪnd they will someday honor me before the whole world.A. I will create rivers in the dry wasteland.Ģ0 The wild animals in the fields will thank me, I will make a pathway through the wilderness. See, I have already begun! Do you not see it? It is nothing compared to what I am going to do. Their lives snuffed out like a smoldering candlewick. I drew them beneath the waves, and they drowned, “For your sakes I will send an army against Babylon,įorcing the Babylonians to flee in those ships they are so proud of.ġ6 I am the Lord, who opened a way through the waters,ġ7 I called forth the mighty army of Egypt Isaiah 43:14-21 New Living Translation (NLT)ġ4 This is what the Lord says-your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel: I WILL be refreshed! And He will be honored. He has made a river in the dry wasteland. Do you see it? He has made a pathway through the wilderness. The One who receives all the glory for my life.Īnd because I know Him, I know that He is doing something new in me. The One who sits at the right hand of our Father. The One who called me by name before the foundations of the earth. The One who created me in my mothers womb.
And I will remain here until He leads me out.įor I have come to know the One who will never leave me or forsake me. I must admit there has been much protest from me in the wilderness.īut I’ve stayed in this place with Him. He showed me how to repent and be forgiven, and forgive. He showed me the fear of man that so easily entangles me. He showed me the angels that would protect me from my enemies as they hurled accusations against me. He showed me the way out of the dry river bed. He showed me the free-flowing river I was destined to enter.
He gave me living water to drink from His hands. In the following weeks and months that led into a new year, I engaged in conversations with the Lord in that dry place. I would be led by the Spirit to an empty, man-made, concrete river bed. In the spring of 2018, the Lord showed me the wilderness I was beginning to endure, alone. Then Jesus was led by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted there by the devil.
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