Marah: Trusting Yahweh as healer

Exodus 15:22-27

Our God is the God of redemption. He frees us from sin into a new life. He heals our brokenness.  There are many times in life we come upon a Marah situation. It’s a situation in life that is filled with undrinkable water. 

This Marah situation may be our own hardened and bitter heart where no sweet water can be found. It may be someone close to us that always takes emotional energy from us and never gives in return. Let’s face it, there are many bitter, non-life giving, undrinkable situations in life. So we grumble. We complain. We try to make the best of it. We try to squeeze the water we need from a stone.  We forget that God is in the business of redeeming the old, the stale, the decaying, and making it new. 

God not only provides for his children, sometimes he does it through the very situation, the Marah, which is the focus of our frustration; he takes something as simple as a piece of wood and makes bitter water sweet. In the end there is no doubt it was God who changed the situation. Who else would use a piece of wood? Who else would take undrinkable bitter water and make it a source of refreshment for all of Israel? Do we remember our God in Marah situations or do we try to sweeten the water ourselves? Do we complain to God or do we request healing from God and give him glory for the change?

Let’s challenge each other to remember that Jesus is in the business of redeeming the old, the stale, the decaying. It is Jeuss who makes us new. He turns the bitter in us to sweet. Click on the title above and let us know if you are ready to let him turn a Marah in your life into something sweet.

posted by, Danny