NOTES for Num 20:1-29
Weak faith is often our main obstacle on the path to God. And the matter is not even a simple confidence in God's existence or in His help, but rather that God is holy. That means that to believe in Him and love Him, we are required to have a likeness to His holiness, a striving to belong wholly to Him regardless of the opinion of those around us.
Moses, the greatest of the prophets, who spoke with God face to face, doubted at the decisive moment and was judged. But who are we compared with Moses? We have only one advantage: we have been given the law of the Spirit in Christ, the love that is greater than the law.