17:1,2
The Israelites are continuing to complain their way through the desert. They moved on from the Wilderness of Sin “according to the commandment of the Lord. So there is an element of obedience here, yet we see again and again that their hearts were far from God. There was not trust in them. The Lord’s path took them to Rephaim where there was no water. The immediate response of the people was to complain to Moses. Moses asks them why they are quarrelling with him, and why were they putting the Lord to the test? In complaining to Moses they were denying that God would look after them. Sometimes the paths that the Lord leads us along in life take us to dry or difficult places. It is so easy to complain in those times, to think that the Lord is not caring for us.
17:3
The people were thirsty, and it was true that there was no water. They continue to complain to Moses, grumbling that he ever brought them out of Egypt. Their focus is on Moses when it should have been on the Lord. It was the Lord who brought them out of Egypt, Moses was only following God’s commands. And it was the Lord who would provide for them in the desert.
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