Understanding the Bible

Soon, I too became born again and I was baptized in the Holy Spirit, getting understanding of what I thought was another cliché. The Holy Spirit brings you wisdom – not the kind that will make you pass all your grades – but a deeper wisdom that makes you understand the things of the spirit of God and His Divine plan for your life.

It also seems to act as the golden key, which unlocks our prayers and the messages in the Word of God.

The message that has been most valuable so far in our family’s journey with God came out of the children’s Bible. There are so many symbolical parallels between our life story and the story of Moses who led the Israelites out of Egypt into the Promised Land.

At first, the Lord commanded Moses to lead the Israelites through the Red Sea – He dried up the ocean and parted the waves so that the Israelites could walk through and then He closed the waves again so the enemy nation would be destroyed.

This is how He makes ways for us when there seems to be no way and He fights the enemy on our behalf.

Like the Israelites, sometimes we have to go into the wilderness before we get to the Promised Land, but we want as little inconvenience as possible, hence we gripe and moan, saying that Egypt was much better with better food.

God supplies us with manna, even when we are disobedient and we do not trust in Him. We still complain as manna is not good enough, we want the good food.

Meanwhile, we go around in circles for forty years, complaining and eating manna when the Promised Land is in fact only 11 days away. That is all God intended for the Israelites – He only wanted them to be in the wilderness for 11 days before entering the Promised Land. Their disobedience cost them forty years in the desert.

This story is also symbolic of the path of a new Christian. We first have to defeat the enemy (sin) by going through the Red Sea (being baptized in the Holy Spirit). We then enter the Wilderness (the transition phase where we miss our old sinful lives) where our obedience and faith is tested before we enter the Promised Land.