011. Prayer Of Moses For Water For The Children Of Israel.

Prayer Of Moses For Water For The Children Of Israel. The Prayer as recorded.—Exodus 17:4. The Answer.—Exodus 17:6.

We meet Moses at the time of this prayer marching with the hosts of Israel from Egypt to Canaan, and still looking upward to that God who had led them thus far, whose stores are never exhausted, and whose love is boundless. Peevish and weary, the children of Israel complain bitterly to Moses; escaped from servitude, supplied with manna, led through the parted waters of the sea, they yet forget God, and now put to a severe trial the meekness and forbearance of their leader. But in this hour Moses forgets not his great Guide; he has a refuge when every other fails, and the rod which had bruised and broken Egypt is now used to restore the thirsty spirit of those murmuring children. God heard the prayer of Moses; the stream that flowed from that flinty rock accompanied their whole way through the wilderness; in it was a type of Him whose precious blood was shed for a dying race— the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.