REVEALED WORD TODAY

// Read: Ex.15:22-27; Gen. 17:1 //
22 Then Moses led the people of Israel on from the Red Sea, and they moved out into the wilderness of Shur and were there three days without water. 23 Arriving at Marah, they couldn’t drink the water because it was bitter (that is why the place was called Marah, meaning “bitter”).

24 Then the people turned against Moses. “Must we die of thirst?” they demanded.

25 Moses pleaded with the Lord to help them, and the Lord showed him a tree to throw into the water, and the water became sweet.

It was there at Marah that the Lord laid before them the following conditions, to test their commitment to him: 26 “If you will listen to the voice of the Lord your God, and obey it, and do what is right, then I will not make you suffer the diseases I sent on the Egyptians, for I am the Lord who heals you.” 27 And they came to Elim where there were twelve springs and seventy palm trees; and they camped there beside the springs.

Gen. 17:1
When Abram was ninety-nine years old, God appeared to him and told him, “I am the Almighty; obey me and live as you should.

MEDITATION:
Let us spend one more day on this passage. Verse 26 was necessary because the children of Israel failed the test of God. This is similar to the second passage today. After Abraham failed woefully by marrying Haggai and having Ishmael, God came and said “Walk before me and be ye perfect”. There is need to
i. diligently heed to voice of God
ii. do what is right in His sight
iii. obey his commandment and
iv. keep his statues
So that none of the disease (death, sickness, lack, sorrow) of Egypt will not be your portion.
PRAYER: Pray for grace to be faithful in observing these four expectations of God this year.