We have been delivered from Egypt. We have crossed the Red Sea in baptism. We have now headed out into the wilderness on our journey to God and his promised land. What’s it like? Sometimes the journey is arduous. This sermon draws a parallel between the testing these people were receiving and the testing of this generation in the current moment. It confronts the listener with the question: how are we doing with this text? Finally, though, it seeks to bring people to the Rock of our salvation, Jesus Christ, who gushes grace to us for our grumbling and continues to go with us on the journey.