But the LORD said to Moses and Aaron, "Because you did not trust me enough to demonstrate my holiness to the people of Israel, you will not lead them into the land I am giving them!"
After thirty-eight years' tedious abode in the wilderness, the armies of Israel advanced towards Canaan again. There was no water for the congregation. We live in a wanting world, and wherever we are, must expect to meet with something to put us out. It is a great mercy to have plenty of water, a mercy which, if we found the want of, we should more own the worth of.
Hereupon they murmured against Moses and Aaron. They spake the same absurd and brutish language their fathers had done. It made their crime the worse, that they had smarted so long for the discontent and distrusts of their fathers, yet they venture in the same steps.
Moses must again, in God's name, command water out of a rock for them; God is as able as ever to supply his people with what is needful for them. But Moses and Aaron acted wrong. They took much of the glory of this work of wonder to themselves; Must we fetch water? As if it were done by some power or worthiness of their own. They were to speak to the rock, but they smote it. Therefore it is charged upon them, that they did not sanctify God, that is, they did not give to him alone that glory of this miracle which was due unto his name.
And being provoked by the people, Moses spake unadvisedly with his lips. The same pride of man would still usurp the office of the appointed Mediator; and become to ourselves wisdom, righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption. Such a state of sinful independence, such a rebellion of the soul against its Saviour, the voice of God condemns in every page of the gospel.
ALL of THE LORD'S own ARE in exodus, and we MUST RELY ON HIM, TRUST HIM, REVERE HIS HOLINESS, HIS POWER, and HIS SOVEREIGN state OVER all!!!
Many people proclaim HIM as their LORD, and SAVIOUR, then they rely upon humans, or human perception, or themselves, concerning most matters! Thus, we add to the problems in this world, of which many Christians suffer! Also, when things are bad, are wrong, are uncertain, our FAITH IS being tested, and MUST be honed to the point of TOTAL TRUST IN *GOD*, because TRUTH IS, no one else can help us, or lead us past what we face!!!
PRIDE which *GOD* detests, resides within us, and we must defeat it, again, again, and again, KNOWING WE ARE DEPENDENT UPON *GOD* FOR ALL, and EVERYTHING! Sometimes the most Devout people gain another form of pride the closer their relationship with THE LORD, and give themselves elevation which ONLY HE can give! Pride doesn't disappear, but can be tamed, can be controlled, and can be convinced of the dire necessity of TRUSTING IN, and RELYING ON THE LORD!!!
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