FAITH CAPSULE: Complaint is disregarding God to experience the painful consequence.  

Numbers 14:1-35

Every life journey should disengage with the multitude to arrive expected in the journey. 
A multitude is a substantial number of people that gathered together. 
A multitude of people can be of many characters. 
Many characters in a company of people are vulnerable to all kinds of challenges. 
Israel was coming out of the bondage of over a hundred years in the company of the multitude.
The Bible records, “Then the children of Israel journeyed from Rameses to Succoth, about six hundred thousand men on foot, besides children. A mixed multitude went up with them also, and flocks and herds—a great deal of livestock.” (Exodus 12:37-38)
The Israelites entered their journey but could not advance because of the negative effect of a mixed multitude.
Numbers 11:4-6 records the negativity of the mixed multitude, “Now the mixed multitudes who were among them yielded to intense craving; so the children of Israel also wept again and said: “Who will give us meat to eat? We remember the fish which we ate freely in Egypt, the cucumbers, the melons, the leeks, the onions, and the garlic; but now our whole being is dried up; there is nothing at all except this manna before our eyes!”(Numbers 11:4-6)
The mixed multitude among the Israelites was the source of intense craving for what they had in Egypt.
Are you focusing on the promises of God or on entertaining the multitude in your midst?
The multitude/crowd does not excuse Israel not to become poisoned with negativity that God does not tolerate.
Remain focused on a life journey to avoid the multitude.
With the influence of the mixed multitude, the Israelites counted on the past to upset their stand before God.
God hears all, gain focus; maintain focus; meditate on the promise of God to claim His promises. 
This day, with understanding, there is a need to know that God performs, and He is more than able to perfect the life of one with a focus on Him.
The character of the multitude is the root of complaints before God. 
The Israelites complaint and God could not look over the complaint but responded to the violation of the Israelites: “As I live,’ says the Lord, ‘just as you have spoken in My hearing, so I will do to you: The carcasses of you who have complained against Me shall fall in this wilderness, all of you who were numbered, according to your entire number, from twenty years old and above. Except for Caleb the son of Jephunneh and Joshua the son of Nun, you shall by no means enter the land which I swore I would make you dwell in.” (Numbers 14:27-30)
God is a good God, and He is a longsuffering God with mercy as it pleases Him.
Know to avoid multitude, maintain focus on God by giving regard to His word.

Prayer for today: Ask against the multitude not to have a place in your life.