FAITH CAPSULE: Have you allowed a mixed multitude to turn your celebration season into the commercial season? 

Romans 1

Are you a true believer or an unbelieving believer? 
A failure to accept the Lord Jesus as the gift of God for all will not know the love of God.
God sent His beloved son, “For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.” (John 3:16) 
Are you a true believer, one forgotten and not remembered that the gift is not a commercial celebration?   
One that is not mindful of God and the works of his hands shall expose to the spirit of forgetfulness.
Paying attention to the works of God is giving jealous God His due exaltation. 
It is a blessing to be paying attention to the works of God.
The children of Israel could not wait for God but take their way. 
Know and understand that the way assumed as right only leads to death. (Proverbs 14:12) 
The book of Psalm 106:13-14 records the forgetfulness of the Israelites, “They soon forgot His works; they did not wait for His counsel, but lusted exceedingly in the wilderness, and tested God in the desert.” 
Not waiting on God will lead to wasting away like the children of Israel that died in the wilderness and did not get to the Promised Land.
The lust of the past prevented them from remembering the acts of God that brought them out of bondage. 
God was leading them to a better future, but they were reserved for their ugly past because they forgot His wondrous works that delivered them.
A mixed multitude will mislead the celebration of the gift of God to commercialize the gift of God. Exodus 12:8 records about mixed-multitude that went up with Israelites on their journey to Promised Land. As the journey advanced, the mixed multitude caused them to be lustful and lost.
Numbers 11:4-6 records the lust, “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!” 
The lust of the Israelites was the cause of their loss of not arriving at the promise of God.
Focusing on the works of God prevents one from forgetting and not sinning to God. 
Today, mixed multitude are not focusing on Jesus as the gift of God for salvation but commercial celebration. 
Celebrating the world in the place of the word of God identifies a believer and an unbelieving believer.
It is time to avoid mixed multitude to avoid the commercial celebration of the gift of God.

Prayer for today: Ask for understanding and not be a victim of ignorance.