Here is today’s Bible reading:  Numbers 19:1-20:29; Luke 1:1-25; Psalm 56:1-13; Proverbs 11:8.

Psalm 56:3-4 (NIV)
When I am afraid,
I will trust in you.
[4] In God, whose word I praise,
in God I trust; I will not be afraid.
What can mortal man do to me?

Notice the role of the Word in cultivating trust in God that overcomes fear.

Luke 1:20 (NIV)
And now you will be silent and not able to speak until the day this happens, because you did not believe my words, which will come true at their proper time.”

We have seen many examples now of how much God dislikes our inability to trust Him.  He is trustworthy!

Numbers 20:2-3 (NIV)
Now there was no water for the community, and the people gathered in opposition to Moses and Aaron. [3] They quarreled with Moses and said, “If only we had died when our brothers fell dead before the Lord!

 Again?!  That must have gotten really old.

Numbers 20:6 (NIV)
Moses and Aaron went from the assembly to the entrance to the Tent of Meeting and fell facedown, and the glory of the Lord appeared to them.

I respect Moses so much for how he intercedes time and again for people who hate his guts.  What character.