· They journeyed according to the commandment of the Lord, led by the pillar of cloud and fire, and yet they came to a place where there was no water for them to drink - We may be in the way of our duty, and yet meet with troubles, which Providence brings us into for the trial of our faith.
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· The people of Israel show a hardness of heart like Pharaoh and the Egyptians despite all that God has done for them
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· The cloud rested on a particular rock, just as the star rested on the house where the infant Saviour was lodged.
· Though they spoke of stoning him. He must take his rod with him, not to summon some plague to chastise them, but to fetch water for their supply. O the wonderful patience and forbearance of God towards provoking sinners! He maintains those that are at war with him, and reaches out the hand of his bounty to those that lift up the heel against him.
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· Some understand the command to be God’s command to Moses to strike God Himself, with the result that God Himself is the source of the life-giving water that flowed from the rock.
· This prefigures Christ who is stricken to provide the water of eternal life.
John 4:14
”but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will never be thirsty forever. The water that I will give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life.”
1 Corinthians 10:4
“…and all drank the same spiritual drink. For they drank from the spiritual Rock that followed them, and the Rock was Christ.”
· God can open fountains for us where we least expect them. Those who, in this wilderness, keep to God's way may trust him to provide for them.
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· Dt 6:16
"You shall not put the LORD your God to the test, as you tested him at Massah.”
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· The Amalekites were descendents of Esau, who were at enmity with Jacob’s descendents.
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· Moses is the one whom the Lord has chosen to lead Israel.
· The Lord is responsible for working their deliverance through Moses (signified by the staff of God and the fact that Moses hands grow weary, showing his human weakness).
· 1 Timothy 2:8
“I desire then that in every place the men should pray, lifting holy hands without anger or quarreling;”
· The church's cause is ordinarily more or less successful, according as the church's friends are more or less fervent in prayer.
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· Though God gave the victory, yet it is said Joshua discomfited Amalek, because Joshua was a type of Christ, and of the same name, and in him it is that we are more than conquerors.
· Christ is both to us; our Joshua, the Captain of our salvation, who fights our battles, and our Moses, who ever lives, making intercession above, that our faith fail not.
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· Amalek's destruction was typical of the destruction of all the enemies of Christ and his kingdom.
Conclusion
Fed by the Bread of Life; refreshed by the Water of Life means victory for the believer in every conflict with the world, the flesh and the devil.
John 7:37
”On the last day of the feast, the great day, Jesus stood up and cried out, “If anyone thirsts, let him come to me and drink.”
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