What Shall We Drink?

The Book of Exodus, chapter 15, verses 22 through 26, records for us the history of Israel at Marah.  This was Israel’s first stop on their journey out of Egypt into the land of Canaan.  It was here at Marah that Israel asked the question: “What shall we drink?”  At first glance the question seems perfectly justified.  We read in verse twenty-one that they journeyed three days in the Wilderness (Desert of Shur—elsewhere described in the Bible as “that great and terrible desert”) and found no...