Life is full of choices like a “choose your own adventure” story. The Bible begins with a fundamental question: Who or what is your most high?

In this eleventh message, we continue last week's lesson in Exodus 15:22–27, where Israel moves from the Red Sea to the bitter waters of Marah. Their quick shift from singing to grumbling shows how circumstances expose the heart. While the people complain, Moses cries out to God, revealing the difference between embittered living and faithful dependence.

This passage reminds us that bitter waters do not have to produce bitter people. God uses hardship to form His people, exposing the deeper poison of fear, complaint, and pessimism. When God "shows" Moses a tree, it becomes a picture of His instruction, the remedy that purifies and heals.

We are called to choose growing over griping. Complaining is contagious, but trust steadies us even when the fig tree fails. Like the three in the furnace, we say: God can deliver, but even if He doesn't, He is still God.

Right beyond Marah was Elim with twelve springs and seventy palms. If we refuse to camp in bitterness and trust God's wisdom, we will find He has refreshment prepared. His aim is not just to change our circumstances but to change our hearts.