FAITH CAPSULE: In God’s promise, God will not look over any violating conditions which will offset His promise.

Numbers 14:1-35

Every journey of life should disengage with multitude to avoid failure which denies arrival to expected end. Multitude is a substantial number of people that gathered together. Multitude of people can be of many character. Many character in a company of people is vulnerable to all kind of challenges. Israel were coming out of bondage of over hundred years with multitude. The bible recorded, “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 enter their journey but they could not advance because negative effect of mixed multitude. Numbers 11:4-6 recorded the negativity of 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)
Mixed multitude was the source of intense craving for what was not important in the journey to God Promised Land. Are you focusing on the promises of God to enter God’s Promised Land for your life or are you focusing on your crowd? Multitude/crowd will not excuse you from their negativity if you will remain relevant with their negativity. Are you focusing on where you are heading to or looking back to the past which added nothing to you but pain? With the influence of mixed multitude character, the Israelites began to count on what was in the past instead of counting the blessing outstretch hand of God that brought them out of their past. Gain focus; maintain focus; meditate on God’s promises.
This day, with understanding, know it that God performs, He is more than able to perfect on man’s life with focus on Him.
Among the Israelites, multitude with distinctive character were the source of complaint before God instead of complimenting God for His goodness. God promised Israelites with Promised Land but God could not look over violating conditions to manifest promise. God responded to violation of the Israelites as it is written, “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)

Prayer for today: Ask for the grace of God to separate you from multitude in your God given life.