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9 So Moses took the staff from the LORD’s presence, just as he commanded him. 10 He and Aaron gathered the assembly together in front of the rock and Moses said to them, “Listen, you rebels, must we bring you water out of this rock?” 11 Then Moses raised his arm and struck the rock twice with his staff. Water gushed out, and the community and their livestock drank.

12 But the LORD said to Moses and Aaron, “Because you did not trust in me enough to honor me as holy in the sight of the Israelites, you will not bring this community into the land I give them.”

Numbers 20:9-12

I wonder how many times I do not trust in the Lord enough to honor Him as holy. Like Moses, I may be doing ministry with a great amount of passion and zeal, but maybe I’m not trusting in Him enough to honor Him as holy. Maybe I am overly dramatizing the word of God and in so doing not really obeying the word of God.

If Jesus is the Rock of our salvation, do I need to “strike” the Rock with my pleas in order to access His living water? … in order to incite a response from the congregation? … or in order to cast judgment on others from my holy soap box?

And if my ministering results in Living Water, is it because of my words, my actions, my zeal and passion?

And is it just me or does anyone else sometimes feel like we have to work ourselves up into a spiritual frenzy in order for the Lord to acknowledge us and hear us?

If only I didn’t have to work so hard to see this world and my life from the Lord’s eyes and feel what He feels, think what He thinks, say what He says, do what He does, go where He goes.

If only I could live my life for His agenda without wondering, “What’s in it for me?”

Father, Let me speak to the Rock of my salvation with a passion that comes from the Holy Spirit. Let me speak to the Rock of my salvation with the stillness that comes with faith in Him. Let me speak to the Rock of my salvation with enough trust to honor You as holy. In Jesus’s name. Amen.