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Numbers 20:1-13

Temptation, confrontation, aggravation, and every other agent of distraction will bring forth failure or untimely death. They never cease in every journey especially when the journey is of God. Temptations, confrontation, aggravation, (agents of distraction) only increase when the journey gets closer to the Promised Land or divine destination. The agents of distraction are the weapons of the enemy to terminate you from stepping into your promised land. As much as the work of the agents of distraction increase, God will also continue to give mercy to carry you through. GodÕs mercy will not and does not run out; it is only His creation that often runs out of His mercy. The higher the level of your calling, the greater the level and the intensity of the enemy will be in attempt to stop or deny the manifestation of your calling. Moses was called by God to lead the children of Israel out of the bondage of over four hundred years. All through his encounter with God, the only thing that was left of him was to touch God in the physical. MosesÕ calling was close to touching God, but yet the enemy made him to exhaust patience. God, however, did not allow the enemy to be exalted over his life when He allowed him to see the land but not to step on the land. From the beginning to the end of his calling, it was an encounter with the enemy using the children of Israel as the instrument of getting to Moses. Rebellious acts were the pattern that was consistently used, but Moses was always on top of it. At the Red Sea, the crying and the fear in the life of the children of Israel was enough a provocation for Moses, but it did not prevail. As they complained and confessed negative against Moses for hunger so they did for water and every other discomfort in their journey. Once they complained against Moses and Aaron, ÒAnd the children of Israel said to them, ÒOh, that we had died by the hand of the LORD in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the pots of meat and when we ate bread to the full! For you have brought us out into this wilderness to kill this whole assembly with hunger.Ó (Exodus 16:3) This kind of provocative complaint made Moses get tripped through aggravation when he responded outside of GodÕs direction as a response at the pressure of providing water from the rock. Having flourished in overcoming many confrontations and aggravations, Moses faltered just at one of the last stops before getting into the Promised Land. Moses spoke and struck the rock with rod instead of just speaking as the Lord commanded. You are closer to your miracle than when you first started the journey so be very conscious of your entire steps not to falter. Hope in God and He will not let shame hold on to you.