From Bitter To Sweet
From Bitter To Sweet Exodus 15:22-25 So Moses brought Israel from the Red sea, and they went out into the wilderness of Shur; and they went three days in the wilderness, and found no water. And when they came to Marah, they could not drink of the waters of Marah, for they were bitter: therefore the name of it was called Marah. And the people murmured against Moses, saying, What shall we drink? And he cried unto the LORD; and the LORD shewed him a tree, which when he had cast into the waters, the waters were made sweet: there he made for them a statute and an ordinance, and there he proved them, Marah means “bitter.” (This name has the same meaning as Miriam and Mary , which we will come back to in a few moments.) Ruth 1:20 And she said unto them, Call me not Naomi, call me Mara: for the Almighty hath dealt very bitterly with me. The waters were bitter until the tree was put into it, then those same waters were made sweet. The interesting thing here is this event occurred only three day...