Wednesday, May 22, 2024

Journal

Please use one of the prompts below to get your journaling started.

  • Recall a significant reaction, conversation or event.

  • Explore your fears and what’s behind them.

  • Write about a relational conflict you are experiencing.

  • List out all that you are grateful for.

Bible Text: Exodus 17:1-7

Reflection & Application

Exodus 17:1-4

  • Reflect on how the Israelites could again become bitter to the point of hostility toward Moses and God given what they had already experienced.  What kind of character, and approach to God does this reveal?

Exodus 17:5-7

  • What attitude is shown by the Israelites’ question “Is the LORD among us or not?”

  • What lesson does this passage teach me about interpreting bad situations as a kind of failure on God’s part?