Re: Verse reading–Exodus 15:22-27; 16:1-18 (day one)
“If you listen carefully to the voice of the Lord your God and do what is right in His eyes, if you pay attention to His commands and keep all His decrees, I will not bring on you any of the diseases I brought on the Egyptians, for I the Lord am your healer.”–15:26.
Jehovah Rapha. “Lord, healer.” I am not sure that the waters of Marah would have made them sick. I am certain that they feared that drinking brackish, bitter water would do so. Years of free, unlimited, clean water in Egypt (from the Nile) had made them tender and timid soldiers. So God toughened and taught His people to trust Him for their health and welfare. So long as we are in the center of God’s will, walking with Him in cooperative, surrendered life; so long as He orders more days for our story, we are invincible. He is our healer!