Waters of Mirabah

Exodus 15:22-27

What may be the spiritual meaning to be taken from that passage and applied to our lives?

The waters were bitter which to some degree could be a reflection of the Israelites disposition after having left Egypt and compared to their living conditions would may have seen to be a little cosier in hindsight, though many of them were the Israelites who were mostly the slaves though others escaped with them as recorded in Exodus 12:38.  were a mixed multitude that had left Egypt. Exodus 12:38. And a mixed multitude went up also with them; and flocks, and herds, even very much cattle.  As some were slaves under some quite brutal taskmasters while living in Egypt in the land of Goshen.  Genesis 45:10.

Genesis 45:10 And thou shalt dwell in the land of Goshen, and thou shalt be near unto me, thou, and thy children, and thy children's children, and thy flocks, and thy herds, and all that thou hast:  King James Version

  of which many had seemed to have forgoten, hence in Father God in His mercy made a way of escape through the leadership of Moses while travelling through the desert to the promised land of Canaan, and had been traveling for quite some time, in the wilderness during which some were begining to wish they never left and perpaps feeling a little bitter travelling in the wilderness after having left Egypt, to be led in following  Moses travelling  into and through the wilderness to the promised land of Caanan of which by this time were quite thirsty as proberly  were  their flocks an cattle too.  In Father Gods infinite mercy Father God prompted Moses to look at a tree and in doing so Mose broke a branch and placed it in the water and the water was made sweet]

A branch in the OT was often referrred to as Jesus who  was refered as the branch as recorded in  Isaiah 11:1Isaiah 11:1 King James Version 11 And there shall come forth a rod out of the stem of Jesse, and a Branch shall grow out of his roots: and the the branch Moses placed in the water made the bitter water sweet. 

Water could perhaps be represented as life, and one cannot survive with out fluid that of which often is water.

Jesus as referred to the branch in  Isaiah 11:1 who was broken on the cross for us, gives one a new life  after His resurrection and ascension the gift of the Holy Spirit often referred to as the water of life was mentioned in John 4:4-42 especially verse 10 -14. 

also water can represent life and also the Holy Spirit too as mentioned in John 4:10-14

 John 4:10-14. King James Version

10 Jesus answered and said unto her, If thou knewest the gift of God, and who it is that saith to thee, Give me to drink; thou wouldest have asked of him, and he would have given thee living water.

11 The woman saith unto him, Sir, thou hast nothing to draw with, and the well is deep: from whence then hast thou that living water?

12 Art thou greater than our father Jacob, which gave us the well, and drank thereof himself, and his children, and his cattle?

13 Jesus answered and said unto her, Whosoever drinketh of this water shall thirst again:

14 But whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life.

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