{"id":1152,"date":"2011-01-09T15:27:00","date_gmt":"2011-01-09T15:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.matsati.com\/bblog2\/client\/index.cfm\/2011\/1\/9\/Parasaht-Beshalach-Searching-for-Gods-Wisdom"},"modified":"2012-09-29T16:18:56","modified_gmt":"2012-09-29T16:18:56","slug":"parasaht-beshalach-searching-for-gods-wisdom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.matsati.com\/index.php\/parasaht-beshalach-searching-for-gods-wisdom\/","title":{"rendered":"Parasaht Beshalach, Searching for God&#8217;s Wisdom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<!-- Place some text here to wrap near image --><\/p>\n<p>In this week&rsquo;s reading, <font style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Shemot \/ Exodus 13:17-15:26<\/em><\/font>,<br \/>\nPharaoh&rsquo;s army follows the Children of Yisrael into the wilderness to overtake them and bring<br \/>\nthem back to Mitzrayim (Egypt).&nbsp; The people feared and blamed Moshe and God for bringing them<br \/>\nout to the wilderness to die.&nbsp; Was this wise of them to accuse Moshe and God for their perceived<br \/>\nmisfortune?&nbsp; According to the wisdom literature, <font style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><br \/>\nMishley \/ Proverbs <\/em>says<em> 2:2 Make your ear attentive to wisdom, Incline your heart to<br \/>\nunderstanding; 2:3 For if you cry for discernment, Lift your voice for understanding; 2:4 If you<br \/>\nseek her as silver And search for her as for hidden treasures; 2:5 Then you will discern the fear<br \/>\nof the Lord And discover the knowledge of God. 2:6 For the Lord gives wisdom; From His mouth come<br \/>\nknowledge and understanding. (NASB)&nbsp; <\/em><\/font>The people had many reasons to put their trust<br \/>\nin God, the miracle of the plagues they witnessed and the Lord presently delivering them from Egypt.&nbsp;<br \/>\nRegardless of what they had seen they still feared and chose to reject Moshe and God rather than to<br \/>\ntrust in the Lord to deliver them from the hand of Pharaoh&rsquo;s army.&nbsp; Regardless of what you<br \/>\nhave seen, do you still trust in the Lord? <a href=\"http:\/\/www.matsati.com\/2010-2011\/Parashat%20Beshalach%20_2010-2011_.pdf\">Read More here.<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this week&rsquo;s reading, Shemot \/ Exodus 13:17-15:26,<br \/>\nPharaoh&rsquo;s army follows the Children of Yisrael into the wilderness to overtake them and bring<br \/>\nthem back to Mitzrayim (Egypt).&nbsp; The people feared and blamed Moshe &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1152","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-weekly-parashah"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.matsati.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.matsati.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.matsati.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.matsati.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.matsati.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.matsati.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1152\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.matsati.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.matsati.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.matsati.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}