God in the Little Things

Is the Lord among us or not?
 - Exodus 17

This interesting account has the people pressuring Moses, to get them some water. We don't know how thirsty they were. Has it only been a day since they had water? A week? Were they being babies, or did they actually have a point?

But we find Moses becoming quite irritated at all of it. When he goes to the Lord, to complain about it, you wonder if God is going to say "You poor thing. They shouldn't be so mean to you." Or God might have said "Why don't you grow up and lead like a man."

But instead, God just simply solves the problem, and it involves taking the Lord's staff, and striking it against a stone. Now - - - there is plenty within that one little event, to talk about. Water of life coming from a rock, etc. But we do not dwell on that today.

God deals with our basic need. We do need water. It is perhaps the most basic human need, one that impacts on our very survival. So God doesn't bemoan the people's complaints! He treats all of them, including Moses, with tenderness here. He solves the problem, but He does so by giving Moses a task.

And the giving of a task implies that we had the power to solve the problem all along. 

Interesting . . .