God wants to lead you and bless you. That much should be clear to you. But there is another very important thing you need to know about this. He wants to lead and bless you through other people. This is how God has chosen to do things. He wants us to live in a community context where there are people to support us, lead us, guide us, teach us and care for us. That community is called ‘the church’. It is therefore very important to be able to receive from people. In order to be able to receive from people you must be humble enough to recognise that they might have something to offer you. You must be able to honour what God has put in them for you. The difficulty we often face is the reality that all people are imperfect. Harder still is the truth that God works through imperfect people, even quite dysfunctional people. If you don’t know that, then you should read your Bible. If you are not willing to receive from someone because of their faults, then you will be unable to receive what God wants to give you. If, like Aaron and Miriam in this story, you refuse to recognise what God is doing through someone else then you will only find yourself working against God. Humility is an essential element of the ability to receive from God. And God will often test your humility by using the most unlikely people to offer you the chance to receive from him.
Ask God who He wants you to honour and receive from.
Read Numbers 12
