How Quickly We Forget!

Exodus 15:24 And the people grumbled against Moses, saying, “What shall we drink?” 25 And he cried to the Lord, and the Lord showed him a log, and he threw it into the water, and the water became sweet. There the Lord made for them a statute and a rule, and there he tested them, 26 saying, “If you will diligently listen to the voice of the Lord your God, and do that which is right in his eyes, and give ear to his commandments and keep all his statutes, I will put none of the diseases on you that I put on the Egyptians, for I am the Lord, your healer.” 27 Then they came to Elim, where there were twelve springs of water and seventy palm trees, and they encamped there by the water.

This chapter opens with the song of Moses after the Lord's deliverance of Israel through the sea, but by the time we get to the end of the chapter the people are already complaining and doubting their great God. We have the same tendency: to forget the great faithfulness of God. God reminded them, and reminds us, of His great promises: He is our Healer. He is not out to poison us. He wants us trust. When we do, He will provide abundantly: twelve springs of water for twelve tribes, and all we need.