Not only was the water bitter there, but also it was the place where bitter grumblings took place. So the Red Sea and the symbolism of salt and bitterness all come up in this Biblical context, too. The connection of bitterness with the descent into the unconscious is part of the individuation journey.
It is important to appreciate that fact because bitterness is such a prominent feature of our work with patients. We are constantly being barraged by bitter complaints. If we can remember this symbolism and apply it to our everyday work, then we're working out of a larger context.
That larger context, slowly but surely, has a healing effect on the bitter complaints that are being expressed out of a narrow context. The larger context gradually loosens up and expands the narrow context, and calms and heals the bitterness. There are a lot of other examples of bitter wilderness experiences which are followed by an encounter with the numinosum. You remember Elijah, when he was in a suicidal depression, fled into the wilderness to Mt.
Horah fig. Elijah was fleeing to escape Jezebel's wrath. It was in that wilderness that Yahweh came to him and gave him his next assignment. And our past habits and false ways of thinking, like Pharaoh and his soldiers, come back to destroy our new efforts. The Lord tells us to go forward in the face of apparently impossible obstacles , even when it seems we will drown in the sea that stands before us. The Lord asks us to go forward because He can see something we cannot see. He knows that when we obey His command and continue with the journey, unforeseen miracles wait for us.
The Lord knows that when we take the initiative in the face of certain death, He will part the seas that stand before us. Even a menial task — like sweeping a floor when we feel emotionally paralyzed — can refocus our lives outward so we have the strength to continue the journey. If we go forward, no matter what the obstacles that stand before us, the Lord will part the waters in our way. The words "go forward" touch our faith and trust in the Lord. Go Israel photo by Alon Ron. As we celebrate the Passover, we are told in the Haggadah the Jewish text that sets forth the order of the Passover Seder or ritual meal to believe that we, too, were freed from Egypt.
The God who performed all those miracles, who led His children through the wilderness, is the same One leading us today. If God does not bring us on the shortest path to His goals—to the place that He has promised to bring us—then He has His reasons, and it is for our good.
So, as you journey, do not be anxious about tomorrow, but engage in what God is doing in your life today. Yeshua Jesus promises:. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes? Passover Seder photo by Rachel Barenblot. God has in mind His best for us, and we should not lose faith at the sight of obstacles like the Red Sea or the battles we must engage in to reach our destiny. Tell the people of Israel to go [ nasa — journey ] forward. Instead, he took them on a route that began a year journey and involved the need for God to perfrom yet another miracle: the parting of the Red Sea.
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