
HERE is a beautiful example of the cooperation between God and His servants in  providing for the needs of His people. Clearly the smiting of the rock was a  very small item in this incident, the main consideration was what God was doing  in the heart of the earth. But the two wrought together: Moses in the eyes of  the people, God in hidden depths. Similarly we are fellow workers with  God.
One of the greatest revelations that can come to any Christian  worker is the realization that in every act of Christian ministry there are two  agents, God and man: that God does not need to be implored to help us, but wants  us to help Him; that our part is the very unimportant and subsidiary one of  smiting the rock, whilst His is the Divine and all important part of making the  waters flow.
Did Moses go to the rock that day weighted with care, his  brow furrowed with the anxiety of furnishing a river of which his people might  drink? Certainly not; he had only to smite: God would do all the rest, and had  pledged Himself to it. So, Christian worker, you have been worrying as though  the whole weight of God's inheritance were upon you, but you are greatly  mistaken; smiting is very easy work.
In every congregation and religious  gathering the Holy Spirit is present, eager to glorify Christ, and to pour out  rivers of living water for thirsty men; believe this. See that you are  spiritually in a right condition, that He may be able to ally you with Himself.  Keep reckoning on Him to do His share; and when the river is flowing, be sure  not to take the praise.
"We are workers together with God."