At Marah - Exodus 15:24-26
The people grumbled to Moses, “What are we going to drink?” So he cried out to the Lord, and the Lord showed him a tree. When he threw it into the water, the water became drinkable. The Lord made a statute and ordinance for them at Marah, and he tested them there. He said, “If you will carefully obey the Lord your God, do what is right in his sight, pay attention to his commands, and keep all his statutes, I will not inflict any illnesses on you that I inflicted on the Egyptians. For I am the Lord who heals you.” Exodus 15:24-26 I love the Lord. He has called me out of darkness into His glorious light. And I confess, I grumble. But the Lord is renewing my mind. My habit of mind was to grumble silently, you know, where the Lord wouldn’t hear it, right. I would keep these complaints and throw them in a sack I kept somewhere down deep in my mind. I was going for plausible deniability. It didn't work; my plan failed. The Lord kept testing me. He kept refining me. He used the test