FAITH CAPSULE: Be simple to do as commanded by His word.
Numbers 20:1-13
What is holding you not to obey God?
As simple as God commands in His word, with simple obedience, do as He commanded.
Proverbs 13:13 warns, “He who despises the word will be destroyed, but he who fears the commandment will be rewarded.”
The word of God is not a suggestion but a command to obey.
The word of God is not a decoration for man to despise.
Diligently, continually, give yourself to obey the word of God.
The word of God is healing, deliverance, preservation, direction for one that obeys.
The word of God is truthful. With understanding and knowledge of the word of God, you will not disregard the word of God.
Disregard your title, live life by the word of God.
At all times, there is no excuse to disobey as commanded by the word of God.
A failure to disobey the word of God is a choice that comes with a consequence.
Prayerfully, live life by the word of God because determination is not enough to enable living life by the commanded word of God. Also, any attempt to obey God by your way (choice) is disobedient, a clear avenue to self-destruction.
In Numbers 20:7, God gave commanded to Moses, God-ordained overseer of the Israelites, at the deliverance from the bondage of over four hundred years, “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.”
The command (word) of God to Moses was not a suggestion.
Moses chose to break the word of God.
Breaking the word of God is the choice to disobey God and not hallow God. In the life of a journey, failing to hallow God is an avenue not to get to the divine assignment of God.
Moses, a giant in the hand of God, reduced his fulfillment by not being able to enter into the Promised Land that God promised the children of Israel.
Be specific as commanded by God.
God commanded Moses to provide water for the children of Israel by speaking to the rock, but Moses responded by his own choice to obey the word of God. It was half-obedience before God to do right in the wrong way.
However, water came forth, but Moses fell short of complying with God’s word of direction.
Numbers 20:11-12 records disobedience of Moses before God: “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.’’
Moses was not specific to the command of God, could not do simple enough as commanded by God.
Moses spoke and struck the rock when not commanded to strike the rock.
Prayer for today: Ask to be enabled to live obediently to His word.