Generational Health & Wellness
The healing power of The Lord has the ability to bring sweetness to the things in your life that were once bitter.
Exodus 15:22 says that Moses led them from the Red Sea to the Desert of Shur. This was not a very easy or direct path. In fact, it would have been more logical to follow the major trade route along the sea, rather than heading into the wilderness.
Then Moses led Israel from the Red Sea and they went into the Desert of Shur. For three days they traveled in the desert without finding water. 23 When they came to Marah, they could not drink its water because it was bitter. (That is why the place is called Marah.[f]) 24 So the people grumbled against Moses, saying, “What are we to drink?”
In verse 26, we finally see the miracle! The Lord “heals” the water here by making sweet that which was once bitter. The water that was undrinkable, leading to certain death, now brought life.
Another fascinating thing I stumbled across in my research is that this wood method to “heal” the water may have had more immediate significance to the Israelites as well. The Enduring Word Commentary explains a theory that highlights the idea that God takes every little details into consideration and He is always looking out for our good… even when we can’t seem to see it in the moment, The commentary states,
“The chemicals in the sap of the broken limb drew the mineral content down to the bottom of the pools and left only good water on top. Even though the waters were now drinkable, there was still a significant magnesium and calcium content in the water. The laxative effect of this would clean out the digestive systems of the children of Israel, cleansing them of common Egyptian ailments such as amoebic dysentery and bilharzia, a weakening disease common among Egyptian peasants. In addition, calcium and magnesium together form the basis of a drug called dolomite – used by some athletes as a performance enhancer in hot weather conditions. At Marah, God provided the right medicine to both clean out their systems, and prepare them for a long, hot march to Sinai.”
Ok, wow!! The Israelites felt like God had led them into the bitter wilderness to die, yet it was this very wilderness that brought them new life and would prepare them for the challenges that they were about to face! He is truly Jehovah Rophe and had every detail covered for generational wellness.
I pray you are encouraged by this today! The wilderness you are in right now, may be the very thing that God is using to purify your insides and prepare you for what is yet to come…. because the next verse says….
Verse 27 Then they came to Elim, where there were twelve springs and seventy palm trees, and they camped there near the water. Sounds like a dreamy oasis to me
Keep Your Love on Friends!
Love Always, Lindsay Rose 🌹
Day 3: Jehovah Rophe | Our Healer part 2