What should I do when tribulations, disappointments, and sorrows come?
When tribulations, disappointments, and sorrows come, we should race to the foot of the cross, because that is where everything has been satisfied. We must not try to bypass the cross, for the work of the cross makes the bitter waters sweet.
Les explains that everything begins and ends at the cross for us today. If we try to bypass the cross, we are as hopeless as the Jews were in Egypt. The tree cast into the waters made the bitter waters sweet, and so in our experience, when tribulations, disappointments, and sorrows come, we should race to the foot of the cross because that is where everything has been satisfied. After that bitter experience is made sweet, Moses leads them by the cloud and pillar of fire—the presence of Jehovah—to an oasis of rest, relaxation, and the satisfaction of thirst, pictured by the 12 wells and 70 palm trees.
And he cried unto the LORD; and the LORD shewed him a tree, which when he had cast into the waters, the waters were made sweet: there he made for them a statute and an ordinance, and there he proved them,