The people of Israel were tested in the dry deserts of Sur and Saudi Arabia for 40 years, and only after that only the children of those who left slavery in Egypt to freedom, besides Joshua and Caleb, got to the promised land. We read the verse in Gal. 4:25
>>Now Hagar represents Mount Sinai in Arabia and corresponds
to the present Jerusalem, for she is in slavery with her children.<<
Nowadays there are many different interpretations about where the
people of Israel crossed the sea, where the Egyptian army followed them and where they drowned. I am of the opinion that it was about the part of the Gulf of Aqaba according to the attached pictures, which the apostle Paul also referred to in his teaching in the verse Gal. 4:25 if we interpret it correctly. https://www.holylandsite.com/exodus-redsea-sinai
Why do we get into trouble too?
It's the only way we get to know how sensitive, self-loving and pampered we really are! We really need endurance and patience to reach that wonderful part of the saved in heaven to which we have been called!
Hebr. 6:11-12 >>11 But we passionately want each of you to demonstrate the same eagerness for the fulfillment of your hope until the end, 12 so that you may not be sluggish, but imitators of those who through faith and perseverance inherit the promises.<<
I remembered an originally Russian lyrical song (Vladimir Vysotsky) "Song about a friend", where the words in Finnish go like this at the end: "How do you know a friend, is he the right one for you? It's the hardest times to find out who will stay by your side..." The song seems merciless at first, but however, it has an important message. Namely, the fact that even a marriage will not last unless both parties are prepared for the fact that there will be great times of trials and tribulations in life. The message also suits our other friends.
Note that the message of the song also fits perfectly with our relationship with Adonai Yeshua! He is the only person (Son of Man) who will never leave us alone with our problems, even if other people abandon us. "Friends die and times change, A faithful and Eternal friend remains!" I'll attach the song below the link to its English version: A song about a friend
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0SAOuEHyD5Y
Can you also rejoice in suffering?
In order for us to learn to rejoice even in difficulties, we must brush up and be hardened in faith, and that lesson will come before us only in the final exam of Calvary University. We cannot rejoice in difficulties unless we understand the reasons why we are brought into them.
We are eventually brought to a situation where all our own strength is not enough, and not even our friends can help. Furthermore, society's safety nets fail and the only one we can get help from is the Son of Man, Yeshua HaMashiach! It is good to prepare for this in advance, because he taught about it like this: Matt. 11:27-30
>>27 All things have been handed over to me by my Father. No one knows the Son except the Father, and no one knows the Father except the Son and anyone to whom the Son decides to reveal him. 28 Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. 29 Take my yoke on you and learn from me, because I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. 30 For my yoke is easy to bear, and my load is not hard to carry."<<
Have you ever been completely powerless?
I've been sometimes so tired, that I haven't been able to do even any kind everyday chores, even though I've wanted to. Such as cleaning, laundry and going to the grocery store. I haven't even been able to rest. Then the only way to get strength has been to pray while resting on a bed or in a chair, and gradually strength has poured out on me from a height so that I have recovered sufficiently and managed to get up again and do the chores in question.
If you experience unexplained fatigue, such that all your strength is gone and you need a touch from above to reach your spiritual balance, then it may be that you are being stripped and emptied of your own strength so that you can be clothed with new strength from on high! Isaiah 40:30-31
>>30 Even youths get tired and weary; even strong young men clumsily stumble. 31 But those who wait for Adonai's (Yeshua's) help find renewed strength; they rise up as if they had eagles' wings, they run without growing weary, they walk without getting tired.<<
Have you noticed the following?
The apostle Paul wrote one of the most beautiful definitions of true agape love when he was in great tribulation (1 Cor. 13). Even the most beautiful Psalms, Lamentations and Spiritual songs have been inspired by the Holy Spirit, often in circumstances where a person has been in extreme distress and seemingly completely without hope. One such song is: "With a Thousand Tongues". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DHo7AXN6rmc It is only in Finnish. The following song is quite similar: O For A Thousand Tongues To Sing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4O9kw3cILpg
The story goes that the German preacher, stag, who was living alone, received that song sometime in the 19th century, when was returning from his preaching trip one winter evening to his house in the middle of the forest. An inconsolable sight awaited him: His house had burned (possibly burned to the ground?) to its foundations, and the last plume of smoke was rising towards the starry sky.
All his possessions had been burned and just as he was about to throw himself down into the snow and cry, the breaking power of heavenly love in the Holy Spirit came upon him and through his mouth came that wonderful song! He wrote it down and realized that the last tie to this world had been severed and that he was being followed from heaven and comforted that he has a better fortune and house stored up there that no one can destroy!
Let us not always rest!
After we have rested properly and been renewed by the invigorating influence of the Holy Spirit, let us rush to the spiritual battlefield, because this world is not a resting place for us, but a battlefield until our last breath! About this Adonai Yeshua wrote like this: John 15:5-9
>>5 "I am the vine; you are the branches. The one who remains in me - and I in him - bears much fruit, because apart from me you can accomplish nothing. 6 If anyone does not remain in me, he is thrown out like a branch, and dries up; and such branches are gathered up and thrown into the fire, and are burned up.
>>5 "I am the vine; you are the branches. The one who remains in me - and I in him - bears much fruit, because apart from me you can accomplish nothing. 6 If anyone does not remain in me, he is thrown out like a branch, and dries up; and such branches are gathered up and thrown into the fire, and are burned up.
7 If you remain in me and my words remain in you, ask whatever you want, and it will be done for you. 8 My Father is honored by this, that you bear much fruit and show that you are my disciples. 9 "Just as the Father has loved me, I have also loved you; remain in my love.<<
Other songs suitable for the topic
Our Savior's original name is the Hebrew name Yeshua HaMashiach HaNotzri
Wilderness
Every Praise
The Golden City
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