FAITH CAPSULE: Failure to fully obey is an avenue to self-destruction. 

Exodus 17:1-7, Numbers 20:7-13

Giving attention to God will attain the blessing of God. 
A failure to give attention to God will incur a curse, evidence of disobedience to God.
Are you one that is giving attention to yourself instead of giving attention to the command of God?
Command (word) of God is the direction with details that demands devotion not to depart as commanded.  
Do not disobey the command of God at all times because no excuse will count for disobedience to God.
Both times, when the Israelites lacked water, God responded with a word of direction for provision through Moses. 
At the first time of lack:
God commanded Moses, “And the Lord said to Moses, “Go on before the people, and take with you some of the elders of Israel. Also, take in your hand your rod with which you struck the river, and go. Behold, I will stand before you there on the rock in Horeb; and you shall strike the rock, and water will come out of it that the people may drink.” And Moses did so in the sight of the elders of Israel.” (Exodus 17:5-6) 
Moses obeyed as commanded by God. 
The second time of lack:
The second time of the need for water, God commanded Moses again, “Take the rod; you and your brother Aaron gather the congregation together. Speak to the rock before their eyes, and it will yield its water; thus you shall bring water for them out of the rock, and give drink to the congregation and their animals.” (Numbers 20: 7-8)
At the first attempt to get water, the word of God directed Moses to strike the rock, while the second time called for speaking to the rock. 
Moses followed the command of God by striking the rock. 
The second time Moses failed to obey the command of God when he struck and spoke.
Numbers 20:11-12 records, “Then Moses lifted his hand and struck the rock twice with his rod; and water came out abundantly, and the congregation and their animals drank. Then the LORD spoke to Moses and Aaron, “Because you did not believe Me, to hallow Me in the eyes of the children of Israel, therefore you shall not bring this assembly into the land which I have given them.” 
Striking is not the same as speaking. 
Failure to fully obey God is an avenue to self-destruction. 
He is a God to become obedient in His direction.
Are you paying attention to yourself rather than paying attention to His command? 
Moses could not step on the Promise Land based on his disobedience to the command of God.
Be accountable and not count yourself out through disobedience.
God is not a joker. 
God expects obedience to His word unfailingly.

Prayer for today: Ask to be enabled with constant obedience to God and not to self.