Well it is good to be almost to the weekend, we are in the middle of preparations for B-dawgs birthday party this Saturday and then holiday travel that will soon follow.  But I wanted to share something that the Lord showed me this morning and has been showing me for the past couple of days.  It started with the last time that I lead worship on a Sunday night, as I was leading there was really not a response from the congregation at all (I mean nothing).  And that was a little frustrating as you want to know that people are worshiping with you and are finding a way to the throne through the worship.  I left with a little frustrated and sour attitude but then the Lord reminded me as I wrote about earlier that it was for Him not for them that we do things.  Well He drove home this concept for me this morning as I was reading my devotional this morning in Numbers chapter 20.  This is where the Israelites are complaining that there is no food and no water to drink.  So Moses and Aaron went and fell on their faces (notice the faith and obedience) and scriptures says that the Lord appeared to them.  The Lord then told them to take the staff and go SPEAK to the rock and it would produce water for the people and the livestock.  Well Moses took the staff as commanded and gathered the people together in front of the rock.  Now here is where things went haywire  (Verse 10 & 11) “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.” (NIV emphasis added).  You can almost hear the frustration/anger in Moses’ voice and even though he accomplished what God told him to do he did it his way and was not obedient to what God told him.  Look a little further down in scripture and look how God addresses and punishes his actions (Verse 12) “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.” (NIV emphasis added).  So here you see how this great man of God, the one who delivered the Israelites out of Egypt and delivered the ten commandments to the people lost a blessing and something that God had promised due to the fact that his attitude and obedience were not there.   This brings us to present day and our point for today’s blog…we as Christians and especially as pastors or worship leaders, it is so important that we do everything to God’s glory and honor.  We must remember that we are nothing more than a tool and that we don’t save anyone only God can do that, we are merely a vessel through which he works.   And we must remember to constantly remain in prayer and in the word so that we protect ourselves from putting the glory and honor in places that they don’t belong.  God expects 100% obedience from us just as we do our own children, however just with our own children there is forgiveness but there are also consequences.  Ok I am starting to run on now…I hope that you see how attitude and obedience are so critical to ministry and to our lives.  Remember to guard yourself with prayer, the word, and fellowship with other believers.

God Bless ~ Tyler

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