Text: Numbers 12:1-15

Introduction: Do you ever battle with your ATTITUDE? Our ATTITUDE controls our ALTITUDE! How “high can you fly”? Do you ever have a “Family Feud”? In our biblical passage today, we are going to see two brothers and a sister who were fussing and fighting over family issues. See if you can tell who needed an AA-ATTITUDE ADJUSTMENT?

1. See if you can, “Measure the MEEKNESS of the Man, Moses”! (Num 12:1-13)

“1And Miriam and Aaron spake against Moses because of the Ethiopian woman whom he had married: for he had married an Ethiopian woman. 2And they said, Hath the LORD indeed spoken only by Moses? hath he not spoken also by us? And the LORD heard it. 3(Now the man Moses was very meek, above all the men which were upon the face of the earth.”

{The word “meek” is ‛ânâv, ‛ânâyv which means lowly, humble}

** Moses could have been bitten with bitterness! He could have said about his mean sister, “She gets what she deserves.” But he did not. Rather, he asks the Lord to heal her….

“13And Moses cried unto the LORD, saying, Heal her now, O God, I beseech thee.”

** Moses was faithful. He let his God be the JUDGE! (Num 12:7)

“7My servant Moses is not so, who is faithful in all mine house.”

Personal Application: Do we retaliate when we are attacked by even our family? Or do we let our Lord Jesus Christ be the One who defends us.

2. Measure the “MURMURING of Miriam”! (Num 12:1)

“1And Miriam and Aaron spake against Moses because of the Ethiopian woman whom he had married: for he had married an Ethiopian woman.”

** Miriam had a critical – fault – finding attitude! Consequently, she faced the repercussions of a bad ATTITUDE. (Num 12:10)

“10And the cloud departed from off the tabernacle; and, behold, Miriam became leprous, white as snow: and Aaron looked upon Miriam, and, behold, she was leprous.”

**Although she was forgiven, she reaped the consequence of her sin.

(Num 12:14)
“And the LORD said unto Moses, If her father had but spit in her face, should she not be ashamed seven days? let her be shut out from the camp seven days, and after that let her be received in again. 15And Miriam was shut out from the camp seven days: and the people journeyed not till Miriam was brought in again.”

Personal Application: What we sow, we reap! Thank God for His forgiveness, yet sometimes the scars remain from bad choices!

3. See if you can AVOID the “ATTITUDE of Aaron”! (Num 12:1-15)

** Aaron may have had spiritual amnesia. Perhaps he forgot about the golden calf. But at least he interceded for his sister.

(Num 12:11)
“11And Aaron said unto Moses, Alas, my lord, I beseech thee, lay not the sin upon us, wherein we have done foolishly, and wherein we have sinned.”

** Aaron had an ATTITUDE ADJUSTMENT.

Personal Application: If we are not careful, we can forget how much we have been forgiven.