Monday, February 7, 2011

Water from the rock

Numbers
And just like that, Moses and Aaron, the leaders of Israel, were not allowed to enter the promised land.  Numbers 20 tells us the second story of the water from the rock.  Moses and Aaron were to go to the rock and Moses was to speak to it, and water would come out so the people could drink.  But when they got to the rock, Moses was too angry to speak to it, and just struck the rock (like he was commanded to a while back the first time God made water come from the rock).  Because Moses and Aaron didn't have enough trust in God, they were no longer able to enter the promised land.
Let that be a lesson to us.  Sometimes what God asks us to do seems so lame, or we think we have a better way to do it.  But God's way really is the better way, and if we don't go his way, then we're missing out on an important lesson or a great blessing.

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