FAITH CAPSULE: Complaint does not have a place before God.
The Israelites failed to separate the multitude.
Israelites allowed a mixed multitude wrongly.
Wrongdoing will result in a wrong gain.
The documentation of Exodus 12:31-51 and Numbers 11:1-15 will provide knowledge when there is understanding.
In every journey of life, there will always be a crossing over.
Are you at a point of crossing over in the journey of your life?
Jesus went on a journey with His disciples, a cross-over experience.
Mark 4:35-36 states, “On the same day, when evening had come, He said to them, ‘Let us cross over to the other side.” Now, when they had left the multitude, they took Him along in the boat as He was. And other little boats were also with Him.”
In any cross-over journey, multitude should not be encouraged as an associate of any form.
The children of Israel allowed a multitude to journey with them.
Exodus 12:37-38 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…”
As the journey continued, the multitude revealed their negative color among the Israelites.
Mixed multitude should be a company from any cross-journey.
As the journey continued with the Israelites, Numbers 11:4 records, “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?”
With mixed multitudes, a complaint started among the Israelites before God.
Complaint does not have a place before God.
In the place of complaint is to give a compliment to God for all He has done, for all He is doing.
Where there is a complaint, rebellion is accompanied.
With the complaint, rebellion became the portion of the Israelites.
Are you on a cross journey with mixed multitudes?
Mixed multitude must be uprooted out of your cross-over journey if there is a desire to get through to the expected end of the journey.
A mixed multitude can be an unwanted, unnecessary burden associated with anyone.
With the multitude of challenges, a complaint was in place.
Jesus, with His disciples, experienced a windstorm challenge.
Mark 4:37 states, “And a great windstorm arose, and the waves beat into the boat, so that it was already filling. But He was in the stern, asleep on a pillow. And they awoke Him and said to Him, “Teacher, do You not care that we are perishing?”
The presence of Jesus in the boat with His disciples was not evidence that the storm would not show up. However, with Jesus in every cross-over journey, there shall be assurance for safe deliverance.
In your cross-over journey, learn to discharge your mixed multitude just as the disciples did in their journey with Jesus.
In a journey, do not underestimate the effect of mixed multitude.
The Israelites allowed the mixed multitude and were disallowed arrival at the promise of God.
Prayer for today: Ask God for the grace not to accommodate or align with mixed multitude in your cross-over journey.