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

Romans 1

Are you a true believer?
A failure to accept the Lord Jesus as a gift of God for salvation of man is forgetting the work of God. God sent 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 that has forgotten and not remember that the gift is not a commercial celebration?
If we fail to be mindful of God and the works of his hands then the spirit of forgetfulness will reign. 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 because it gains God’s attention. The children of Israel could not wait for God they took to their own ways. It is comforting to know that the way that is perceived as right to man, only lead to death. (Proverbs 14:12) The book of Psalm 106:13-14 recorded about forgetting 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.”
Evidently, not waiting on God will lead to wasting away just like the children of Israel that died in the wilderness and not get to the Promised Land. Their lust for the past prevented them from the remembering the wondrous acts that brought them out of bondage. God was leading them to a better future but they were reserved to their ugly past all because they forgot His wondrous works that delivered them.
A mixed multitude will mislead celebration of the gift of God to commercialize God’s gift. Exodus 12:8 recorded about a mixed multitude that went up with Israelites on their journey to Promised Land. As the journey advanced, the mixed multitude caused them to a state of lust.
Their lust is revealed in Numbers 11:4-6, “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 children of Israel could not wait for what God was doing and what He was set to do in their life out of the bondage of over four hundred years.
Focusing on the works of God prevents one from forgetting and not sinning to God. Today, mixed multitude are not focusing on Jesus as a God’s gift for salvation but commercial celebration. It is time to avoid mix multitude to avoid commercial celebration of God’s gift.

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