FAITH CAPSULE: Are you hallowing God or deceiving your world?

Numbers 20:1-13

Are you hallowing His name?
Jesus taught prayer: “Our Father in heaven, hallowed be Your name.” (Matthew 6:9) 
Hallowing God is endowing, respecting, sanctifying, and revering the name of God. 
God deserves the honor.
Proverbs 18:10 identifies God, “The name of the Lord is a strong tower; the righteous run to it and are safe.” What is limiting the understanding of the name of God in your life? 
Moses wanted to know what to call God before delivering the message of God to Pharaoh as God identified His name. 
Exodus 3:13-14 records, “Then Moses said to God, “Indeed when I come to the children of Israel and say to them, ‘The God of your fathers has sent me to you,’ and they say to me, ‘What is His name?’ what shall I say to them?” And God said to Moses, “I AM WHO I AM.” And He said, “Thus you shall say to the children of Israel, ‘I AM has sent me to you.’”
All should know and always remember that the word of God is not a waste when He states He is a jealous God. 
A jealous God demands attention in every means to call on Him or to answer His calling.
Are you hallowing His name?
As great as Moses was in the hand of God, the sin that deprived him of stepping on the Promised Land was his failure to hallow the name of God. 
When God commanded Moses to speak to the rock for water to quench the thirst of the Israelites, Moses went and struck the rock. (Numbers 20:7-9) 
The act of Moses dishallowed God, and it counted against Moses as disobedient before God. 
God responds to Moses, “…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 failure to hallow God is evidence of a lack of belief; it is also rebellious to God. Numbers 27:14 records, “For in the Wilderness of Zin, during the strife of the congregation, you rebelled against My command to hallow Me at the waters before their eyes…”
Trespassing against God also counted as dishallowing God, as Moses did, “because you trespassed against Me among the children of Israel at the waters of Meribah Kadesh, in the Wilderness of Zin, because you did not hallow Me in the midst of the children of Israel.” (Deuteronomy 32:51)
As a result of the truth that Moses did not hallow God, the word counted unbelief, rebellion, and trespassing against Moses. 
Know to hallow God in all seeking Him.
“The Lord of Hosts, Him you shall hallow; let Him be your fear.” (Isaiah 8:13) 
In your walk, let God know your fear for Him as a way of life.

Prayer for today: Ask that you enable yourself not to be a failure before God.