Deuteronomy 13:4 You shall walk after the Lord your God and fear him and keep his commandments and obey his voice, and you shall serve him and hold fast to him.

At the time these words were recorded God only spoke face to face with Moses.

Numbers 12:2 And they said, “Has the Lord indeed spoken only through Moses? Has he not spoken through us also?” And the Lord heard it.

Aaron and Miriam spoke out against Moses because of the woman he took to wife. This displeased the Lord.

⁶ And he said, “Hear my words: If there is a prophet among you, I the Lord make myself known to him in a vision; I speak with him in a dream. ⁷ Not so with my servant Moses. He is faithful in all my house. ⁸ With him I speak mouth to mouth, clearly, and not in riddles, and he beholds the form of the Lord. Why then were you not afraid to speak against my servant Moses?” ⁹ And the anger of the Lord was kindled against them, and he departed. Numbers 12

God struck down Miriam with Leprosy but not Aaron. Aaron pleaded with Moses as a priest, Moses interceded with the Lord and Miriam was healed.

Aaron is a typos of the priesthood, Moses is a typos of Christ.

Now we are living in the times of the Lord’s Kingdom, a time of false prophets and false Christ. What is different is because of the work of the Cross we can by faith have access to God’s will directly via the Holy Spirit who is God in us.

Ephesians 2:10 For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.

Colossians 1:10 so as to walk in a manner worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing to him: bearing fruit in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God;

At some point in our walk of faith we will put aside the feelings of guilt over past sins and find peace in the salvation that has been so graciously gifted to us in Christ Jesus.

There is a transition point where faith stops being all about us and we discover we can be useful to God through service in His plans for others.

Not everyone feels “the calling”. Some do because they have accepted that the gifts granted are not about serving themselves but serving God. None of us desire to be called idle so we allow others to tell us how we can be of use. What happens to individuals who see no fruit being born in those services?

Psalm 128:2 You shall eat the fruit of the labor of your hands; you shall be blessed, and it shall be well with you.

This places us into that category of those who grumble about the manna from heaven because we are not satisfied with what God has graciously granted.

Here is why. What you are doing is not increasing your knowledge of God.

Philippians 1:22 If I am to live in the flesh, that means fruitful labor for me. Yet which I shall choose I cannot tell.

They are still making this all about themselves.