Beginning of the End - Ellen G. White

Lord your God and do what is right in His sight, give ear to His
commandments and keep all His statutes, I will put none of the
diseases on you which I have brought on the Egyptians. For I am the
Lord who heals you."
The people journeyed from Marah to Elim, where they found
"twelve wells of water," and they stayed there for several days.
When they had been gone from Egypt for a month, their stock
of food began to run out. How could such a large number of people
be fed? Even the rulers and elders joined in complaining against the
leaders God had appointed: "Oh, that we had died by the hand of the
Lord in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the pots of meat and
when we ate bread to the full! For you have brought us out into this
wilderness to kill this whole assembly with hunger."
They had not yet actually gone hungry, but they feared for the
future. In imagination they saw their children starving. The Lord
permitted difficulties to surround them and their supply of food to
be cut short, so that their hearts might turn to Him who had been
their Deliverer. If they would call on Him in their need, He would
still give them evidence of His love and care. It was sinful unbelief
on their part to think that they or their children might die of hunger.
They needed to encounter difficulties and endure hardships.
God was bringing them from corruption and shame to have an
honorable place among the nations and to receive sacred trusts. If
they had had faith in Him, remembering all that He had done for
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