FAITH CAPSULE: The move of Moses did not settle well with God. 

Numbers 20

God is a God of order. 
No one is above obeying the command of God, and the command of God is not negotiable. 
Have you been commanded but yet to obey? 
It does not matter who you are, but it does matter not to despise the word of God. 
Simple disobedience denied Moses from getting to the Promised Land
To despise His word is to be destroyed. 
Proverbs 13:13 records, “He who despises the word will be destroyed, but he who fears the commandment will be rewarded.” 
To despise the word of God is a lack of fear for God. 
Moses, as great as he was in the hand of God, could not step on the Promised Land because he despised the command of God, and there was no excuse to deliver him from the consequence of his error.
Numbers 20:7-8 states, “Then the LORD spoke to Moses, saying, “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.”  
Moses was to respond to the request of the children of Israel for water when God commanded him to speak to the rock. 
Moses did not speak as God commanded by God, but he engaged the command of God as it pleased him.
Numbers 20:11 states, “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.” 
Before he struck the rock, he called out to the children of Israel, a disobedience to the command of God for him. 
The move of Moses did not settle well with God. 
As a result, God responded 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.” (Numbers 20:12) 
A lifetime journey ended in the wilderness for Moses when he struck the rock instead of speaking as commanded by God.
Simple disobedience prevented Moses from getting to the Promised Land. 
Moses pleaded before God, but God did not reverse His judgment towards Moses. 
Indeed, to despise the command of God is not to fear God.
All live in the time of dispensation of grace, but it is not a reason to despise His command. 
Jesus indeed paid it all for us on the Calvary. 
However, the word questioned all, “…Shall we continue in sin that grace may abound? Certainly not! How shall we who died to sin live any longer in it?”(Romans 6:1-2) 
The sin of Moses was enough for all to learn not to despise the command of God. 

Prayer for today: Ask God to deliver you from the spirit of disobedience.