Have you ever followed your GPS faithfully, only to end up on a dead-end road or stuck in a ditch? You trusted the directions, but the destination feels completely wrong. As we continue our Lenten journey, we find the Israelites in a similar predicament. They followed God's pillar of cloud perfectly, yet arrived at a camp with absolutely no water. It felt like a divine dead end. Why would a loving God guide His people straight into a barren, life-threatening wasteland? As we open Exodus 17 this morning under the theme, "When God's 'GPS' Leads You Into a Ditch," we will explore those difficult seasons when God's perfect guidance brings us to impossible places, and where our parched souls can always find life.
Sermon Text: Exodus 17:1-7