The experience of Moses at Meribah illustrates how anger developed when Israelites lost trust in God. 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙄𝙨𝙧𝙖𝙚𝙡𝙞𝙩𝙚𝙨 𝙬𝙚𝙧𝙚 𝙖𝙣𝙜𝙧𝙮 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙛𝙧𝙪𝙨𝙩𝙧𝙖𝙩𝙚𝙙 𝙗𝙚𝙘𝙖𝙪𝙨𝙚 𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙮 𝙡𝙖𝙘𝙠𝙚𝙙 𝙬𝙖𝙩𝙚𝙧, 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙮 𝙙𝙞𝙧𝙚𝙘𝙩𝙚𝙙 𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙞𝙧 𝙘𝙤𝙢𝙥𝙡𝙖𝙞𝙣𝙩𝙨 𝙖𝙜𝙖𝙞𝙣𝙨𝙩 𝙈𝙤𝙨𝙚𝙨, 𝙂𝙤𝙙’𝙨 𝙖𝙥𝙥𝙤𝙞𝙣𝙩𝙚𝙙 𝙢𝙚𝙨𝙨𝙚𝙣𝙜𝙚𝙧 (Numbers 20:2–5). Their hostility towards Moses reflected a deeper problem: their unbelief in God’s ability to provide. Hebrews 3:18–19 explains that they could not enter God’s rest because of their disobedience and unbelief. However, Moses, too, became a victim of the very spirit of frustration he was expected to manage. Instead of following God’s instruction to speak to the rock, he addressed the people harshly, declaring, “Hear now, you rebels!” and struck the rock twice (Numbers 20:8–11). Although the Bible does not explicitly state that Moses was angry, his words and actions reveal frustration and a loss of composure. Psalm 106:32–33 confirms that the people provoked his spirit, and he spoke rashly. His anger was understandable in light of years of complaints, but it was not justified. He allowed the behaviour of the people to influence his obedience to God.

The deepest lesson is that anger against God’s messenger can become a rejection of God’s authority, but God’s messengers must also guard themselves against responding in anger when they are mistreated. Moses was God’s servant, yet he was still accountable for how he represented God before the people. In Numbers 20:12, God explained that Moses had failed to trust Him enough to honour Him as holy before the Israelites. We must not allow the rebellion of others to produce rebellion in our own hearts, nor allow their anger to become our anger. Ephesians 4:26–27 reminds us, “Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath: Neither give place to the devil.” The challenge for every Christian, particularly those entrusted with leadership, is to recognise irritation before it becomes indignation, wrath, fury or rage. We must learn to respond to provocation with faith, patience and obedience, ensuring that our emotions never cause us to misrepresent the character of God.

Providing loving acts on our part.
Living the love of God.
How do we do that? We can praise God to others. For instence: Praise God for the little miracle’s, or just an answer to prayer. Of course daily prayer with request of daily suplications of little things, precieved trivial things, as well as major request make it possible to have somthing to praise Him about. Then when a major answer to prayer takes place, or miracle if you prefer happens, you will be in the habit of giving the glory to God in the form of praise.
Psalms 34:1

Praise Him, Jesus our blessed Redeemer. Another example of a major answer to prayer is: A smile and saying the doctor was successful, God is good, or praise God, even better, give God the glory. To a stranger in the elevator is maybe all you should say with 1st contact. And then listen and ask questions if the opertunity happens to present itself in the future. Ambassadors of God’s love is what all Christian’s are.

The following is why we should put the Bible 1st as has been mentioned. In sticking with A Friday of giving inspirations from Ellen White. I read the following from Christian Education page 80.1. And will share by the following link to the exact page.

https://egwwritings.org/read?panels=p10.342&index=0

“Truth” can be defined by what it is NOT as much as by what it IS. There are antonyms to truth. The lesson points out that contrary to the sentiment of today’s culture, all utterances and opinions and ideas cannot be truth.

So, just for fun, how about we fill out the vocabulary template together….In the oval in the center of the paper we write “truth” in our favorite, fanciest writing.

What do you want to draw for a picture? I’m drawing a figure of Jesus and an open Bible. Jesus says, “I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life” (John 14:6) The Truth is a Person, the God-Man Jesus. I’d add beams of light around Jesus’ face (Jn. 3:19,21). John 17:17 says, “Your Word is truth.” So truth is also God’s Word that became flesh in Jesus (John 1:14). Let’s add some light shining up out of the open Bible, too.

What is our definition of what truth is? I’m writing, “Truth is who God is, what He says, and what corresponds to reality as He defines it.” Ps. 119:160 says, “The entirety of Your Word is truth…” Jn. 8:32 says that we can know the truth and the truth will set us free. Synonyms are faithfulness/reliability/loyalty/the Rock (Ex. 34:6; Deut. 32:4); honesty/ integrity/righteousness (Ps. 15:2; Prov. 12:17) and light (Ps. 43:3; 1 Jn 1:5-6). In Hebrew Old Testament, the word ’emet emphasizes firmness and faithfulness – something that holds firm under pressure. In Greek New Testament, aletheia emphasizes unveiling or “unhiddenness” – reality brought into the open. These words add a richer meaning than the English “truth” alone.

What shall we write about what truth is not? Truth is NOT relative or subjective, but rooted in God and not in personal feelings, cultural consensus or individual preference. Satan is the father of lies and untruths (Jn. 8:44). God never lies (Num. 23:19; Titus 1:2; Heb. 6:18). Truth is also NOT merely intellectual knowledge without corresponding actions (1 Jn. 1:6,8; 1 Jn. 3:18). The opposite of the light of truth is the darkness of falsehood and error. Antonyms of truth are hypocrisy, deception, relativism, and unfaithfulness.

Our sentence? (OK, we can write a couple sentences.) Truth is God’s own character expressed in His Son, revealed in His Word, and applied by His Spirit. Truth is..well, true… firm, reliable, genuine and liberating. Its opposites are unstable, deceptive, false and enslaving. A key biblical passage about Truth 2 Tim. 2:15-19. I want to live in and with God’s Truth.

I give you all A+ 🙂 Don’t forget to put your name on your paper.

Looking at a closer look at the hostile environment that God’s messengers faced, some notable lessons stand out:

1) God’s appointed messengers will face opposition, surprisingly, not from without but from within. For instance, Moses not only faced hostility from Pharaoh but from the people whom he was called to deliver (Exodus 5:20–21).
2) Those who have been called to labour in God’s vineyard will always encounter a hostile environment. This is not only a physical conflict but also a spiritual one (Ephesians 6:12).
3) Hostility and opposition to God’s messengers strongly show that God’s truth is not easily welcomed. This is a strong warning to us, too. Those who have made a deliberate choice to be followers of Christ must be prepared to face this reality too (Matthew 5:10).
4) How God’s messengers responded to their challenges is a graphic lesson on how we should respond to our own crucibles. How Peter and John responded when they encountered hostility from religious authorities is truly worthy of emulation. “But Peter and John replied, “Do you think God wants us to obey you rather than him? We cannot stop telling about everything we have seen and heard” (Acts 4:19-20, NLT).
5) One of the greatest lessons worth learning from these episodes of hostility and opposition is that we should develop Christian character and not bitterness. Our response to hostility should reveal the character of Jesus.

The greatest test of our faith is not simply how we behave when everything is going well, but whether we remain faithful to God when obedience becomes costly.

It is perhaps fitting that the Israelites were called the “Children of Israel” because when they received messages of correction, they behaved like children and got angry. No one likes to be told they are wrong. And it takes some time for the message to sink in. The other reaction is to simply ignore the message, and in many respects that is worse than getting angry. Getting angry is a relfex action that may lead to regret and later reformation. “Ignoring” is a more calculated response, telling the sender that their message is unwanted and/or irrelevant.

How do we respond to God’s messages today?

From the Beginning, God, through all His agencies, reached out to give mankind one overarching message: ‘declaring the paramount significance of the act of LOVING Him!’ To understand this is central to our relationship with Him because our life is lived by faith. This represents the overarching, most pertinent, most perfect, most inclusive Truth our God wants mankind to know. Do we hear Him?

For mankind’s protection from evil, in every age, in every dispensation, in every circumstance, God calls us to first and foremost LOVE Him. As soon as we dedicate our heart, mind and ensuing actions to loving Him, He forms in us the reflection os His Image and we have Rest – I see this to be HIS prophetic message.